verb
- Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.
- usage: "The patient must be sedated before the operation"
- synonyms: calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise
adjective
- Characterized by dignity and propriety.
- synonyms: staid
- Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
- usage: "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
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