Tending to soothe or tranquilize.
Synonyms
Examples for "sedative"
Examples for "sedative"
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A sedative gave Bryce the best sleep he'd enjoyed in a year.
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She also suggested they discuss whether a sedative is necessary during surgery.
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The sedative that the doctor has given her begins to take effect.
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The sedative influence had got him; the experiment was at an end.
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Indica: Provides a relaxing and sedative effect that is ideal for night-time.
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The soothing and tranquillizing effect of the sitz is described as extraordinary:-
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Madeleine's tranquillizing influence over others was one of her most remarkable traits.
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The effect of this communication was the reverse of tranquillizing upon the patient.
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But the beating of her heart grew faster in spite of that tranquillizing assurance.
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Rachael said quickly, when the tranquillizing voice reached this point.
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The captain, however, had no little difficulty in tranquillising the invalid lady.
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Popo, more by signs than words, quickly succeeded in tranquillising the lad.
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Among these tranquillising objects, it is my delight to walk and meditate.
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And the tranquillising influences employed were morphia, croton oil, or a blister.
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Instructions to the Earl of Sussex for tranquillising the North after the Insurrection.
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She softened instantly, as if the words 'New York' had a tranquilizing effect.
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She knew by experience the tranquilizing influence of giving him something to do.
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The scene was tranquilizing; nevertheless the young man appeared out of harmony with it.
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The scene was a maritime pastoral, picturesque and potentially tranquilizing-andyet I felt uneasy.
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You will cry, and I, too; but our tears will be refreshing, tranquilizing tears.
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Crack Dreams obviates the necessity for the titular narcotic with its tranquilising bleepscape.
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The two talked about taking razor blades to her wrists or getting the tranquilising drug Klonopin.
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How tranquilising it was!
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Set your alarm for an early, pre-crowd visit for glimpses of the gardens' tranquilising harmonies of light and shade, and rock and water.
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But what she did had a tranquilising effect; she seemed to enable life to win the victory over the insidious pranks of apparitions.
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The masterful production of their records - gentle, pristine, lightly psychedelic - shifts over to a live setting without losing any of their tranquilising effects.
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I've always been gregarious but the tranquilising effects of running hard laps in my local park was a reprieve for an interminably active adolescent mind.
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Tranquilising a big cat is not easy.
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"Quiet, now, quiet, Master Hunston," said Pike, "or I shall have to try means for tranquilising you which you won't find agree with you."