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medicates

medicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of medicate.

Meaning of medicate

Verb

medicate (third-person singular simple present medicates, present participle medicating, simple past and past participle medicated)

  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.
    • 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)

Questions about medicates

What is medicates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Medicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of medicate.

Words near medicates in the dictionary

  1. medicarpin
  2. medicaster
  3. medicasters
  4. medicate
  5. medicated
  6. medicates
  7. medicating
  8. medication
  9. medication assisted treatment
  10. medication assisted treatments
  11. medication-assisted treatment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medicates (page history and authors); medicate (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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