What is "sedating"

Usage examples of "sedating".

This reporter, like the others, exudes that same blue smell of serenity-a sedating olfact used by journalists to put their subjects at ease.

Welles had debated the advice of sedating Tanner, but finally decided it would serve his purposes to have his test subject awake for the process.

At first, the druid had thought her in pain, and he quickly prepared a sedating spell to calm her.

If there's any way of sedating your youthful passenger, I'd be mighty grateful.

When we came out at the bottom, the same medical team were waiting, sedating implements poised.

The injection worked quickly and effectively, although it required the full efforts of all four of the other men in order to hold him down and still long enough for her to administer it properly, then keep him still until the drug had had time to start sedating him.