| 单词 | sedate |
| 释义 | sedate (once / 1452 pages) adjv Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day-to-day life means composed, quiet, and serene. Not necessarily unconscious. To be sedate when dining with the Queen means that you behaved with dignity and solemnity. To be sedated when dining with the Queen means that you were face down in the bread pudding and drooling onto the tablecloth. The medical sense of the word is to be tranquilized, either to calm your nerves after a shock or in preparation for surgery. Socially, to be sedate is to be serene, quiet, and composed. WORD FAMILYsedate: sedated, sedately, sedateness, sedater, sedates, sedatest, sedating, sedation, sedative+/sedative: sedatively, sedatives USAGE EXAMPLESThe Jack Russell was sedated and vets spent 45 minutes removing the "rock hard" paste encasing the dog's teeth. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) First, the art of the American Revolution was as much about “spin” as documentation, often rendering peppery personalities, including Washington’s, in a misleadingly sedate manner. Washington Post(Oct 18, 2016) In Gubaiya, a sedate hamlet in northwestern Yemen, many men worked in neighboring Saudi Arabia on construction sites, at restaurants and in menial jobs. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) 1adj characterized by dignity and propriety Syn staid decorous characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct 2adj dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises a quiet sedate nature Syn grave, sober, solemn serious concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities 3v cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to The patient must be sedated before the operation Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper calm, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate cause to be alert and energetic hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise, mesmerize induce hypnosis in entrance, spellbindput into a trance affect act physically on; have an effect upon |
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