(~s, sedating, ~d)
1.
If you describe someone or something as ~, you mean that they are quiet and rather dignified, though perhaps a bit dull.
She took them to visit her ~, elderly cousins...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
~ly
...~ly dressed in business suit with waistcoat.
ADV: ADV with v
2.
If you move along at a ~ pace, you move slowly, in a controlled way.
We set off again at a more ~ pace.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
~ly
He pulled ~ly out of the short driveway.
ADV: ADV after v
3.
If someone is ~d, they are given a drug to calm them or to make them sleep.
The patient is ~d with intravenous use of sedative drugs...
Doctors have been told not to ~ children with an anaesthetic that may be linked to five deaths.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
~d
Grace was asleep, lightly ~d.
ADJ: v-link ADJ