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medicate

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To administer a medicinal substance to (a patient).
  • transitive verb To treat (a disease or condition) with medication.
  • transitive verb To add a medicinal agent to (a substance).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make medicinal; tincture or imbue with a remedial substance or principle.
  • To treat with medicine; ply with or as if with drugs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.
  • transitive verb To treat with medicine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To prescribe or administer medication.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb treat medicinally, treat with medicine
  • verb impregnate with a medicinal substance

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin medicāre, medicāt-, from medicus, doctor, from medērī, to heal; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin medicātus, past participle of medicō.

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. drug

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. impregnate
  2. saturate

forms (3)

Forms

  1. medicated
  2. medicates
  3. medicating

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. medicated ale

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