In Medical Terms it mean a drug that puts people to sleep used by dentist to relaxe people or put them to sleep
it means to sit or sedate
The next dart should be enough to sedate our Miss Kitty...Just sedate me now!
That is the proper spelling of "sedate" (calm, or to tranquilize).
The spelling "staid" means sedate or stodgy.The past tense of the verb to stay is "stayed."
Santa is actually quite sedate in the off-season.
The abstract noun forms of the verb to sedate are sedation and the gerund, sedating.The abstract noun form of the adjective sedate is sedateness.
Staid means sedate, respectable, unadventurous. The antonym would therefore be frivolous, adventurous, or sporting.
Stimulate?
Example: when you have surgery, they sedate you so that you don't move. Tranquilizers are used to sedate dangerous animals. Good enough?
Scant is to deficient as sedate is to restless. Just as "scant" implies a lack or deficiency in quantity, "sedate" suggests a calm or tranquil state, contrasting with "restless," which describes an inability to stay still or calm.
I believe many pediatricians wish they could sedate their patients like veterinarians can.
Sedate activities are activities that do not involve significant movement or motion. Examples include reading, watching TV, and resting. The opposite of a sedate activity would be one such as running, walking, aerobics and performing household chores.