"sedation" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sedation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: sedations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sedation (countable and uncountable, plural sedations)
  1. The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act): qetësim [masculine] (Albanian), sedació [feminine] (Catalan), sedace [feminine] (Czech), sedaatio (Finnish), sédation [feminine] (French), Sedierung [feminine] (German), sedazione [feminine] (Italian), sēdātiō [feminine] (Latin), sedação [feminine] (Portuguese), sedație [feminine] (Romanian), sedácia (Slovak), sedación [feminine] (Spanish), sövning [common-gender] (Swedish), sedasyon (Turkish)

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