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2 meanings

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1 —as in:
sedate her

Definition

cause to be calm or drowsy by giving a drug

Other Uses (with this meaning)

I think it'll work better if we take him back to surgery and sedate him, then put in the IV.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

sedate = cause to be calm or drowsy by giving a drug

She's still sedated from the surgery and she's on a ventilator to help her breathe while her body heals from the trauma.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

sedated = calm or drowsy from drugs

They'd have me secured and sedated within minutes, and I can't afford to be put under again.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
They had to keep you sedated for a while, honey — you've got a lot of injuries.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
Eve opened her eyes and stared hard at the door behind which Jerry Fitzgerald was mildly sedated.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
He is without fail deeply sedated for this procedure—and remains connected to the doomsday button.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
They'd sedated her and taped a patch with some of his blood to the same small, scabbed incision that Dr. Bancroft had made on her arm.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
I couldn't think, and I was sedated for most of the time I was awake.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
I keep them sedated all the time now.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City

2 —as in:
she is sedate

Definition

calm and dignified

sedate = calm and dignified

Other Uses (with this meaning)

It seemed more sedate than I remembered it, more perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

sedate = calm and dignified

Leaving their father and me to our quieter, more sedate pleasures, one of which was simple conversation.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

sedate = calm and dignified

(Starts up from down L., walking sedately along Main Street. As she reaches the corner, she speaks off to her R.)
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

sedately = in a calm and dignified manner

...it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie or meditation.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

sedate = calm and dignified

When he sedately tried to explain this and that to Joyce, she said, "Did we bother you this evening?
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
He added, more sedately, "Do you know one thing, Captain—"
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
Evgenie himself behaved rather more sedately than usual, probably out of respect to the dignitary.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
He stood for a moment at his own hall door, looking sedately at the elegant equipage as it rattled away.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
"Not the seniors," said Henry sedately.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman

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