Word.ws English Dictionary

premedicate

premedicate verb: to medicate beforehand, such as medicating before a surgical procedure.

Verb

premedicate (third-person singular simple present premedicates, present participle premedicating, simple past and past participle premedicated)

  1. To medicate beforehand, such as medicating before a surgical procedure.

Forms of premedicate

third-person singular presentpremedicates
present participlepremedicating
past participlepremedicated
pastpremedicated

Origin of premedicate

From pre- + medicate.

Questions about premedicate

What does premedicate mean?
Premedicate means to medicate beforehand, such as medicating before a surgical procedure.
What part of speech is premedicate?
Premedicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of premedicate?
The past tense of premedicate is premedicated.

Words near premedicate in the dictionary

  1. premediated
  2. premediates
  3. premediating
  4. premedic
  5. premedical
  6. premedicate
  7. premedicated
  8. premedicates
  9. premedicating
  10. premedication
  11. premedications

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: premedicate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “premedicate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/premedicate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.