sedating

Verb

sedate (third-person singular simple present sedates, present participle sedating, simple past and past participle sedated)

1. (transitive) To give (a person) a sedative to calm them or put them to sleep; to tranquilize.
   • Though he may have been sedated, he knew I was there, knew who I was, knew I was talking to him.1986–1989 (date written), J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee, “Part II”, in Age of Iron, London: Martin Secker & Warburg, published September 1990, →OCLC, page 73
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make (someone or something) calm or tranquil; to assuage, to calm, to soothe.
   • Did matter contend with matter, what confusion would it produce? whilst the mind and soul of man sedate the hostility, and bring it to due obedience, as being a power abstracted, a distinct and immaterial principle.a. 1707 (date written), John Evelyn, “Whether there be a Deity and Supreme Being? That there is, […]”, in The History of Religion. A Rational Account of the True Religion. […], volume I, London...

   Synonyms:

   tranquilize

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