sedate
se|date /sɪd'eɪt/ (sedates sedating sedated)
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins...
● sedately [ADV] ADV with v
...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat.
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
We set off again at a more sedate pace.
● sedately [ADV] ADV after v
He pulled sedately out of the short driveway.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.
The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs...
Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
● sedated [ADJ] v-link ADJ
Grace was asleep, lightly sedated.
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
If you describe someone or something as sedate, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins...
● sedately [ADV] ADV with v
...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat.
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
We set off again at a more sedate pace.
● sedately [ADV] ADV after v
He pulled sedately out of the short driveway.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, V n
If someone is sedated, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.
The patient is sedated with intravenous use of sedative drugs...
Doctors have been told not to sedate children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
● sedated [ADJ] v-link ADJ
Grace was asleep, lightly sedated.