sedate
adjective
calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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“They had sedated him, because he wasn’t doing very well,” Aviles said of her late cousin’s health, which began deteriorating in recent weeks.
From Fox News ● Apr. 17, 2020