Sample Sentences for
sedate
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sedate as in:  sedate her

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The patient must be sedated before the operation.
sedated = made calm or drowsy by giving a drug
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    I think it'll work better if we take him back to surgery and sedate him, then put in the IV.  (source)
    sedate = make calm or drowsy by giving a drug
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    She's still sedated from the surgery and she's on a ventilator to help her breathe while her body heals from the trauma.  (source)
    sedated = calm or drowsy from drugs
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    Soon, her sedated condition transformed to harassment and self-loathing.†  (source)
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    But I'm gonna move real slow and sedate, bein' the lady that I am.†  (source)
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    The same with fully sedated bodies— the connection was never made properly.†  (source)
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    Nestled on a pine-covered ridge in northern Arizona, the sedating forest views give way to the breathtaking red mountains of Sedona to the west.†  (source)
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    Make sure she sedates him.†  (source)
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    The Russian doctors loved injecting barbiturates no matter what ailed you, and since their patients loved the needle, no one left the Russian hospital unsedated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsedated means not and reverses the meaning of sedated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He felt something, but he said no. He didn't want to be oversedated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in oversedated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The road was full of traffic, which, though grim and sedate, was traffic nonetheless.†  (source)
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    After you get used to the food here, you'll be properly sedated and will follow directions.†  (source)
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    This eliminates the chancy step of sedating just the right amount, but it always makes for an uncomfortable hookup.†  (source)
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    Though the exhibition was moderately crowded, still it had the sedate, meandering feel of a backwater, a certain vacuum-sealed calm: long sighs and extravagant exhalations like a room full of students taking a test.†  (source)
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sedate as in:  she is sedate

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She has a quiet sedate nature.
sedate = calm
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    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.  (source)
    sedate = calm and dignified
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    Leaving their father and me to our quieter, more sedate pleasures, one of which was simple conversation.  (source)
    sedate = calm
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    As she watched, one of these detached itself into a sudden breeze and sailed sedately off, while others leaned from the pod as if to observe its departure.  (source)
    sedately = in a calm and dignified manner
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    (Starts up from down L., walking sedately along Main Street. As she reaches the corner, she speaks off to her R.)  (source)
    sedately = in a calm and dignified manner
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    Nor did he seem much more at ease; when he spoke, his accent had none of its usual sedateness; and he repeated his inquiries as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her having stayed in Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the distraction of his thoughts.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    ...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.  (source)
    sedate = calm
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    The Lincoln Town Car eased sedately from the curb and slid past Lavon's window.†  (source)
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    A hurriedly donned black robe billowed about him when at last he arrived, but it was with impressive sedateness and dignity that he asked, "Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached your verdicts?"†  (source)
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    Their hands rest in their laps, looking as if they are folded sedately.†  (source)
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    But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.†  (source)
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    Mennonite teenagers raced sedately in polished Model T's.†  (source)
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    But the farther he went and the more his attention was diverted by the ever-increasing crowds moving toward the Kremlin, the less he remembered to walk with the sedateness and deliberation of a man.†  (source)
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    A platoon of ants carried a dead cockroach sedately through the door, demonstrating what should be done with corpses.†  (source)
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