Santa is actually quite sedate in the off-season.
The next dart should be enough to sedate our Miss Kitty...Just sedate me now!
I believe many pediatricians wish they could sedate their patients like veterinarians can.
In order to capture a wild animal to tag it and perform research, one must sedate it, therefore making it semiconscious to unconscious, with a tranquilizer gun.
That is the proper spelling of "sedate" (calm, or to tranquilize).
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.
Stimulate?
Example: when you have surgery, they sedate you so that you don't move. Tranquilizers are used to sedate dangerous animals. Good enough?
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.
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it means to sit or sedate
Use a hydroxy benzaldehyde derivative to sedate your dog for a 20 hour ride. Vanillin should do the trick.