sedate

Object

• antihistamine: Sedating antihistamines may also be useful to relieve itching at night.
• patient: Sedated patients must still be able to communicate with the operator during the nerve block procedure.
• effect: The majority have a sedating effect, which can be useful for ME patients with sleep disturbance.
• medication: Taking sedating medication does not always mean you cannot drive.
• horse: Sagittal MR image of a horse's foot A sedated horse having MR images taken of the lower limb.
• baby: In my experience, its definitely preferable to Pethidine in terms of not sedating babies or women.

Preposition: for

• procedure: Your rabbit may need to be sedated for this procedure.

Modifies a noun

• pace: The next 1,700 meters were going to be at a more sedate pace.
• affair: Actually no, they are talking of a more sedate affair.
• approach: The Bank's rather more sedate approach, however, appears to have paid off.
• activity: Some people might walk the Three Peaks for exercise in glorious sunshine Others, of course, might choose a more sedate activity.
• way: The more sedate way of scoring is to collect treasure.
• manner: It will chuff gently away from rest and will gather speed in a sedate manner.

Modifying Another Word

• heavily: On Friday, the heavily sedated bird began eating on her own, a good sign for full recovery.
• fairly: Compared to the car fires on Saturday night, the rest of the weekend was fairly sedate.
• relatively: The first half of the film is relatively sedate.
• rather: It's a rather sedate setting for its vibrant & ambitious food.
• quite: Indeed the circus staff, in general, seemed quite sedate.
• usually: Possibly the hilarious state of his mind unduly affected his usually sedate body.

Used with adjective complement

• do: Since they don't sedate the baby or the mother, they are also handy at home births.