medicate

Meaning

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

Frequency

47k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
Etymology

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

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