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Calming and relaxing
appease
assuage
balls-to-the-wall
bask
bread
calm
chill
let/blow off steamidiom
lie down
lighten something up
lull
lull someone into something
melt
relaxation
self-soothe
settle
settle down
shirt
simmer
simmer down

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Medicines & drugs: administering drugs & medicines

sedate | American Dictionary

sedate
adjective
us/sɪˈdeɪt/
calm and controlled, and often traditional in habit or manner:
She preferred standard ballads and sedate pop tunes to rock music.

Examples of sedate

sedate
All patients were sedated with a mixture of meperidine, promethazine and chlorpromazine.
Therefore, we recommend sedating irritable patients prior to echocardiographic evaluation.
When treating terminal delirium, physicians have to decide whether to start another opioid rotation or sedate the patient, given an extremely short life expectancy.
For both procedures fish were not sedated which was in accordance with local animal welfare regulations.
The prescription of sedating medications in high dosages is a common response to terminal restlessness symptoms, and may sometimes be a last resort.
On withholding artificial hydration and nutrition from terminally ill sedated patients.
Furthermore, the propensity to be overwhelmed and ' give up ' on this task is greater for individuals who are generally unwell, sedated or have poor motivation.
Parenteral narcotics are too sedating to be relied on for most parturients.
Nor was pain resulting from wounds invariably sedated.
All babies had been previously sedated with chloral hydrate (50 mg/kg).
Their sedate socialism embraced democracy unconditionally, having experienced first-hand the pain of its loss.
The patient was sedated and was breathing room air throughout the study.
The 5 patients who were sedated for prior angiography were easily arousable, responsive and communicative.
The patient remains awake, although sedated, and able to follow instructions.
Some relatives were also pleased with the fact that patients were less sedated than with previous medication.
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