medicate
Meaning
- (transitive) To prescribe or administer medication to.
- (transitive) To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
Etymology
From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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