Crossword-Solution: SEDATIVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sedative | a. | Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize |
| Sedative | a. | allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain. |
| Sedative | n. | A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEDATIVE | anagram | DEVIATES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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Sentences with SEDATIVE (5)
The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.
Later, as the sedative action began to gain on the stimulant action, you would slowly become inert and stupefied.
Now I want you to give the Girl the strongest sedative you dare, take off your coat, roll your sleeves, and see how well you can imitate my voice, and how much you have profited by listening to my song.
But painting, on the contrary, is often highly sedative; because so much of the labour, after your picture is once begun, is almost entirely manual, and of that skilled sort of manual labour which offers a continual series of successes, and so tickles a man, through his vanity, into good humour.
The doctor exhibited a strong sedative, and in the course of two hours pronounced him fit to walk home, but in passing through the hall the paroxysms of fright returned and with additional violence.
Quotes with SEDATIVE (3)
The best antidote to the furtive poison of anger, fear, anxiety, or any of our destructive, unwieldy passions, is just gratitude. And not the grandiose, boisterous or especially obvious kind. It is not necessarily the verbose or expressive kind. It's often the full immersion, a kind of deep submersion even, into a pool of awareness. This penitent affect distills within us surreal realizations; it is a focus, tinged with layers of deep remorse and the profound beauty of newfou…
A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-changing mind, laugh as its sunlit ripples lap its skin, but, shut up in the castle of a few thoughts, paces its narrow prison, wearing down the stone of time, feeding on its own excrement. There is no star in the blackness of that night, no foam upon the stagnant and putrid sea. Even the glittering health that the desert brings to the body, is like a spear in the soul's throat. The…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1948–2023).