medicate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To prescribe or administer medication to.
To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.

/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-medicate.wav

medicate medicates medicating medicated

From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

medication prescribe

automedicate medicative nonmedicated overmedicate polymedicate premedicate premedicated self-medicate undermedicated unmedicated

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