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Drug that reduces excitability
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sedative
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative drug , depressant , downer ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ben Barka was then tied to a chair and injected with a sedative . ▪ Doctors, the suit claims, also supervise attachment of a heart monitor and might give the condemned inmate a sedative . ▪ He was offered a sedative for this ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tending to calm or soothe," early 15c., from Medieval Latin sedativus "calming, allaying," from sedat- , past participle stem of sedare , causative of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary ). The noun derivative meaning "a sedative drug" is attested from 1785. ...
Usage examples of sedative.
An aerosol version of the sedative will be used initially to stupefy the populations of Istanbul and Ankara.
Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundice combined with melancholy.
Nembutal: Nembutal is a short-acting barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects.
Dioscorides and Theophrastus, and was much esteemed by the Romans to be eaten after a debauch of wine, or as a sedative for inducing sleep.
I insisted on looking, and then they hadda give me a sedative with a needle.
Sassinak tried not to think of the children on board, and hoped that Huron had enough sedative packs along.
He looked now at Kes, who seemed to sleep somewhat fitfully under the effects of the sedative.
He prepared a mild sedative - a tincture of blue cohosh and motherwort - and gave it to her to gentle down some of her worse fits of grief.
Either the sedatives had not quite worn off yet, or the cold had numbed his brain.
The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.
This robotic surgeon, like all others in the known universe, thought I was allergic to sedatives.
The whole plant is sedative and antispasmodic, being of service by its preparations to relieve sleeplessness, nervous headache, and muscular rheumatism.
Its medicinal action is astringent, with a reduced frequency of the pulse, and some gentle sedative effects, so that any tendency to coughing, etc.
So the prescription sedative could have been drawn off in whole or in part, and puromycin injected into the bottle.
Neither have we any faith, in lasting good resulting from prescribing such nerve sedatives as put the nerves to sleep and so, by simply blunting sensibility, delude the patient into the false belief that he is being benefited.