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medicate Definition

medi·cate (med′i kāt′)

transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing

  1. to treat with medicine
  2. to add a medicinal substance to; tincture or impregnate with medicine

Etymology: < L medicatus, pp. of medicari, to heal < medicus: see medical

medicate Related Forms

med′i·ca′·tive adjective

medicate Usage Examples

Object

  • shampoo: Washing your face and body twice a week in the shower with the medicated shampoos listed above helps to prevent relapse.
  • feed: From weaning pigs will receive feed medicated with a growth promoter.
  • food: They are well absorbed through the gut, making them useful for medicated food.
  • water: For example, small header tanks may require recharging with medicated water several times during a 1â2 hour period.
  • child: But I've become increasingly uneasy with the role I play and the readiness of families and doctors to medicate children.
  • feedingstuffs: Controls existed on the addition of zootechnical feed additives and on medicated feedingstuffs.

Preposition: with

  • drug: Evidence suggests that we are being medicated secretly with drugs that modify our behavior.
  • promoter: From weaning pigs will receive feed medicated with a growth promoter.

Preposition: for

pain: My problem is I haven't been able to medicate for pain.

Preposition: without

consent: Politicians, or even a public majority, do not have the right to medicate without consent.

Modifying Another Word

  • heavily: He was diagnosed as suicidal, and suffered from ulcers, depression, insomnia and constant headaches, for which he was heavily medicated.
  • highly: Synopsis Andrew Largeman leads a numb and highly medicated existance.
  • very: I decided I would go on Sunday making it through the night very medicated.