[U] the act of giving sb drugs in order to make them calm or to make them sleep; the state that results from this:
The victim's wife was last night being kept under sedation in the local hospital.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is sedation a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sedation is tagged as noun.
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