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medicating

medicating is the present participle and gerund 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 medicating

What is medicating the present participle and gerund of?
Medicating is the present participle and gerund of medicate.

Words near medicating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medicating (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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