sedative drug meaning
Noun: sedative drug
- A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
- sedative, depressant, downer
Derived forms: sedative drugs
Type of: drug of abuse, medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, street drug
Encyclopedia: Sedative drug
Examples
More: Next- One hypothesis is that he mixed alcohol with sedative drugs.
- Monitoring continues until the effects of sedative drugs wear off and gag reflex has returned.
- Newspapers reported Monday that Bryant recently made a third suicide attempt by swallowing sedative drugs he obtained in prison.
- An extremely large amount of a sedative drug, chlorpromazine, was found in the victim's stomach.
- Also entered as evidence were samples taken from Barnes's body which showed that sedative drugs had been present.
