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BNC: 45538 COCA: 21529

medicate

medicate /ˈmɛdɪˌkeɪt/ verb
medicates; medicated; medicating
medicate
/ˈmɛdɪˌkeɪt/
verb
medicates; medicated; medicating
Learner's definition of MEDICATE
[+ object]
: to treat (a person or disease) with medicine and especially with drugs用药物治疗
BNC: 45538 COCA: 21529

medicate

verb

med·​i·​cate ˈme-di-ˌkāt How to pronounce medicate (audio)
medicated; medicating

transitive verb

1
: to treat (someone or something) with or as if with medicine
medicate a condition
was medicated for pain/depression
… is happily living his life one day at a time since he stopped drinking and otherwise medicating himself … Charles Leerhsen
2
: to impregnate with a medicinal substance
medicated soap

Example Sentences

The patient had been heavily medicated.
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Word History

Etymology

Latin medicatus, past participle of medicare to heal, from medicus

First Known Use

circa 1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of medicate was circa 1623
BNC: 45538 COCA: 21529

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