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medicate.

To prescribe or administer medication to.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
  1. To prescribe or administer medication to.

    transitive
  2. To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Latin medicō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English medicate From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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