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WebMD

WebMD proper noun: a healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.

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Proper noun

WebMD

  1. A healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.

Verb

WebMD (third-person singular simple present WebMDs, present participle WebMDing, simple past and past participle WebMDed or WebMD'd)

  1. (transitive) To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.
    • There had been signs. Dana saw them in 2008, when she was away attending American University. “We would have the same conversation three times in one day,” she recalled. B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face. “I WebMD’d it, and I said, ‘Oh, she has Alzheimer’s.’ ”2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”, in The Washington Post
    • It’s like being scared of spiders and then constantly scanning every room you enter for spiders and WebMDing “spider bites side effects.” Or freaking out about the state of our democracy and studying the 25th Amendment at 3 a.m.2020 October 11, Elahe Izadi, “The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it.”, in The Washington Post

Forms of WebMD

third-person singular presentWebMDs
present participleWebMDing
past participleWebMDed
pastWebMDed
past participleWebMD'd
pastWebMD'd

Origin of WebMD

From Web + MD (“medical doctor”).

Questions about WebMD

What does WebMD mean?
WebMD means a healthcare website, founded in 1996, that publishes news and information pertaining to human health and wellbeing.
What part of speech is WebMD?
WebMD can be a proper noun or a verb.

Words near WebMD in the dictionary

  1. webmastering
  2. webmasters
  3. webmastery
  4. webmaven
  5. webmavens
  6. WebMD
  7. webmeister
  8. webmeisters
  9. webmistress
  10. webmistresses
  11. webmoth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WebMD (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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