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• n  a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
• s  tending to soothe or tranquilize
  took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed

• That would be like dealing with a traffic jam by taking a sedative.
• He referred to a combination of drugs she used with her patients the sedative Versed and the painkiller morphine as a "lethal cocktail guaranteed to kill.
• Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after going into cardiac arrest after overdosing on a powerful sedative at his rented home on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles.

• sedative drug
• depressant
• downer
• ataractic
• ataraxic
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing
• tranquilising
• tranquillising

News & Articles

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• SAFE camp keeps local youth active
  For more than 20 years the YMCA’s SAFE camp has offered kids a healthy and active summer alternative to the sedative lifestyle of video games and television.
  June 8, 2013 - Plainview Daily Herald

Quotes

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• Brad Childress in USA Today
  We might have to give him a sedative or something like that,Childress said.
• Hassan al-Turabi in Reuters South Africa
  If the issue is not fixed, then it will be like giving a patient a sedative without the presence of a surgeon,said Turabi, the Islamic ideologue behind the rise of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir who was gradually pushed out by the general.
• Carole Keeton Strayhorn in Bizjournals.com
  Before her hospitalization, Strayhorn says, the foster child in question had been prescribed "a bundle of psychotropic medications, including antipyschotics, antidepressants, a sedative, stimulant and mood stabilizer."