medicate

English

Etymology

From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

medicate (third-person singular simple present medicates, present participle medicating, simple past and past participle medicated)

1. (transitive) To prescribe or administer medication to.
2. (transitive, of a substance) To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
   • 1998 September 7, Aimee Harms, “Change of heart”, in alt.support.eating-disord‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I started to think of food as my friend instead of my foe. It medicates my body. Every bite of food I intake I think of how it is going to make me stronger and help all my organs function.

   • 2008 March 18, Logan Shaw, “Antihistamine nasal spray over the counter?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I would just buy Claritin, or its generic equivalent Loratadine. It's non-drowsy, it's cheap, and it works. Yes, it medicates your whole system, but I don't know of any significant ill effects from that.

Derived terms

• automedicate
• self-medicate

Related terms

• medication

Translations

administer medication

• Bulgarian: лекувам с лекарство (lekuvam s lekarstvo)
• Dutch: medicineren
• Finnish: lääkitä (fi)
• Galician: medicar
• German: verschreiben (de), medizieren, medizinisch behandeln
• Ido: medikamentizar (io)
• Latin: medico (la)
• Ligurian: mêgâ
• Portuguese: medicar (pt)
• Spanish: medicar (es), medicinar (es)
• Swedish: medicinera (sv)
• Turkish: ilaç yazmak (tr) (prescribe), ilaç vermek (administer)

See also

• prescribe

Anagrams

• decimate, edematic

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

medicate

1. inflection of medicare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

medicate f pl

1. feminine plural of medicato

Anagrams

• decimate

Latin

Participle

medicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of medicātus

Spanish

Verb

medicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of medicar combined with te