medicate
/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
medicate verb: to prescribe or administer medication to.
Verb
medicate (third-person singular simple present medicates, present participle medicating, simple past and past participle medicated)
- To prescribe or administer medication to.
- To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
- I started to think of food as my friend instead of my foe. It medicates my body. Every bite of food I intake I think of how it is going to make me stronger and help all my organs function.1998 September 7, Aimee Harms, “Change of heart”, in alt.support.eating-disord (Usenet)
- I would just buy Claritin, or its generic equivalent Loratadine. It's non-drowsy, it's cheap, and it works. Yes, it medicates your whole system, but I don't know of any significant ill effects from that.2008 March 18, Logan Shaw, “Antihistamine nasal spray over the counter?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet)
medicate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
medicate in Tamil
- மருந்தளி, மருந்து அளி
medicate in Urdu
- دوائی سے علاج کرنا
medicate in Bengali
- ঔষধ প্রয়োগ করা, চিকিৎসা করা, ঔষধ মিশ্রিত করা
medicate in Kannada
- ಮದ್ದುಕೊಡು, ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ಮಾಡು, ಔಷಧ ಕೊಡು, ಔಷಧ ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ಮಾಡು, ಔಷಧ ಸೇರಿಸು
Forms of medicate
| third-person singular present | medicates |
|---|---|
| present participle | medicating |
| past participle | medicated |
| past | medicated |
Origin of medicate
From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from medicate
Questions about medicate
- What does medicate mean?
- Medicate means to prescribe or administer medication to.
- What is medicate in Tamil?
- Medicate in Tamil is மருந்தளி, மருந்து அளி. See Medicate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is medicate?
- Medicate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce medicate?
- Medicate is pronounced /ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of medicate?
- The past tense of medicate is medicated.
Words near medicate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: medicate (page history and authors); medicate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medicate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medicate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medicate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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