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overmedicating

overmedicating is the present participle and gerund of overmedicate.

Meaning of overmedicate

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

Questions about overmedicating

What is overmedicating the present participle and gerund of?
Overmedicating is the present participle and gerund of overmedicate.

Words near overmedicating in the dictionary

  1. overmedicalizes
  2. overmedicalizing
  3. overmedicate
  4. overmedicated
  5. overmedicates
  6. overmedicating
  7. overmedication
  8. overmedications
  9. overmeek
  10. overmeekness
  11. overmellow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overmedicating (page history and authors); overmedicate (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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