MDa drug used to make someone calm or go to sleep 镇静药,镇静剂
—sedativeadjectiveadj
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sedative• Doctors, the suit claims, also superviseattachment of a heartmonitor and might give the condemnedinmate a sedative.• He was offered a sedative for this test, too.• Ben Barka was then tied to a chair and injected with a sedative.• Valerian root has been used for centuries as a mildsedative.• The news was good: minor cuts, nothing deep, anti-tetanus injections just in case, mild sedative for shock.• In high amounts hops are such a potentsedative that Clement, working as an herbalist, offers them to dental patients.• Our vet came out early that morning with some sedative, but we needn't have bothered.• This annoyed the surgeon, who began to cut before the local or the sedative had taken effect.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + SEDATIVEADJECTIVE➤powerful, strong強力/強效鎮靜劑▸➤mild藥性不強的鎮靜藥◇The doctor gave her a mild sedative to help her sleep.醫生給了她一種藥性平和的鎮靜劑來幫她入睡。VERB + SEDATIVE➤administer, give sb, prescribe (sb)使用鎮靜藥;給某人鎮靜藥;(為某人)開鎮靜藥➤take, use服用/使用鎮靜劑