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–ation


suff.
    1. Action or process: strangulation.
    2. The result of an action or process: acculturation.
  1. State, condition, or quality of: eburnation.

[Middle English -acioun, from Old French -ation, from Latin -ātiō, -ātiōn-, n. suff. : -ā-, stem vowel of verbs in -āre + -tiō, -tiōn-, abstract n. suff.]


 
 
 

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