a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
<noun.artifact> [ adj ]
tending to soothe or tranquilize
<adj.all> valium has a tranquilizing effect took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed
Sedative \Sed"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. s['e]datif.] Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize; specifically (Med.), allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.
Sedative \Sed"a*tive\, n. (Med.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
The Public Citizen Health Research Group asked the Food and Drug Administration to restrict the use of the intravenous sedative midazolam, because the group said its use has led to 40 U.S. deaths.
Local veterinarian Geraint Griffiths said the problem was that it was impossible to get Hilda into the new trailer quickly and give her an early antidote to the sedative because of her sheer weight.
Jackson said Bakker's condition worsened between Wednesday and Thursday, even after he was given Xanax, an anti-depressant sedative.
Veterinarians resorted to a fatal dose of sedative when Maya was unable to stand on her own following a treatment of fluids, painkillers and steroids.
The ARD report also said pilots then take the sedative Seconal at night to counteract the effects of Dexedrine.
The pills, it turned out, were Nembutal, a sedative.
FDA restrictions have in the past protected Americans from such drugs as thalidomide, the sedative that caused grave birth defects in Europe in the early 1960s, and Laetrile, the useless extract of apricot pits peddled in Mexican cancer clinics.
"I told one person who wanted a sedative for her (child) that she was the one who needed it." At the hotlines, callers report all kinds of psychosomatic ailments.
Jackson said Bakker's condition worsened overnight, even after he was given Xanax, an anti-depressant sedative.
The icy Lady Capulet (Amelia Bullmore) seldom appears without a glass in hand, possibly as a sedative to protect her from her husband, splendidly played as a north country businessman by John Branwell.