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sedation

sedation noun: the act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.

Noun

sedation (countable and uncountable, plural sedations)

  1. The act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
    • The patient was so agitated that the doctor resorted to sedation.

sedation meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

sedation in Tamil

அமைதியூட்டல், தணித்தல்

sedation in Malayalam

sedation
മയക്കം mayakkaṁ

Forms of sedation

pluralsedations

Words formed from sedation

Words that rhyme with sedation

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Questions about sedation

What does sedation mean?
Sedation means the act of sedating, especially by use of sedatives.
What is sedation in Tamil?
Sedation in Tamil is அமைதியூட்டல், தணித்தல். See Sedation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sedation?
Sedation is a noun.
What is the plural of sedation?
The plural of sedation is sedations.

Words near sedation in the dictionary

  1. sedateness
  2. sedater
  3. sedates
  4. sedatest
  5. sedating
  6. sedation
  7. sedationist
  8. sedationists
  9. sedations
  10. sedative
  11. sedative salt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sedation (page history and authors); sedation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മയക്കം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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