Definition of "sedating" [sedating]

• Present participle of sedate. (verb)

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• "A growing number of hospitals are putting in place new five-step protocols for their ICUs that include sedating patients more lightly when possible and regularly assessing them for pain and signs of delirium."
• "Phenobarbital is a sedating drug that back then was commonly used to treat seizures in children, but we usually looked harder to document and find a cause for the seizure before we settled into therapy -- especially in a 3 month-old."
• "The FDA's four-hour rule is presumably there so too much of Intermezzo zolpidem won't be sticking around, sedating people when they wake."