sedation
noun /sɪˈdeɪʃn/
/sɪˈdeɪʃn/
[uncountable]- the act of giving somebody drugs in order to make them calm or to make them sleep; the state that results from this
- under sedation The victim's wife was last night being kept under sedation in the local hospital.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- heavy
- mild
- …
- under sedation
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from French sédation or Latin sedatio(n-), from sedare ‘settle’, from sedere ‘sit’.