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overmedicate

overmedicate verb: to medicate excessively.

Verb

overmedicate (third-person singular simple present overmedicates, present participle overmedicating, simple past and past participle overmedicated)

  1. To medicate excessively
    • "I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said.2007 December 14, Joanne Kaufman, “Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative”, in New York Times

Forms of overmedicate

third-person singular presentovermedicates
present participleovermedicating
past participleovermedicated
pastovermedicated

Origin of overmedicate

From over- + medicate.

Questions about overmedicate

What does overmedicate mean?
Overmedicate means to medicate excessively.
What part of speech is overmedicate?
Overmedicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overmedicate?
The past tense of overmedicate is overmedicated.

Words near overmedicate in the dictionary

  1. overmedicalization
  2. overmedicalize
  3. overmedicalized
  4. overmedicalizes
  5. overmedicalizing
  6. overmedicate
  7. overmedicated
  8. overmedicates
  9. overmedicating
  10. overmedication
  11. overmedications

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