Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - sedate

(sedates, sedating, sedated) 1. 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... ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately ...sedately dressed in business suit with waistcoat. ADV: ADV with v 2. If you move along at a sedate pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way. We set off again at a more sedate pace. ADJ: usu ADJ n • sedately He pulled sedately out of the short driveway. ADV: ADV after v 3. 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. VERB: be V-ed, V n • sedated Grace was asleep, lightly sedated. ADJ: v-link ADJ