to medicate
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6.1
- verb
- /ˈmɛdɪˌkeɪt/
- Jasmine got medicated shampoo for the yeast infection and was supposed to get a bath every two days.
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- And, and, and of course, as it happens, I was self medicating because the actual medicine was making me worse.
- It's less about the anxiety and it's more about like the behavior that you're reaching out to, to to self medicate.
- And this is where I think and I I didn't know this, but it appears, you know, now she's, you know, self medicating.
- I was trying to self medicate, I was trying to self over medicate and I was running away from everything, mainly myself.
- So I was using it to self medicate and I was always just like a social drinker until I wasn't.
- So I was self medicating, doing all the things that you should not do, you know, if you're depressed, you shouldn't.
- Some of them medicate themselves on the way home or they'll say, look, I've got the yachts, I've got The Jets, I'm super rich and my kids don't talk to me.
Examples
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And on the same platform, they have an authentication platform where the doctors can medicate for a client and then the client buy the product.
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Once Gabe's arm was cleaned, medicated, and bandaged, bowls of chicken soup and hot biscuits were served.
Fiction book (1995) -
In fact, though she was heartbroken and heavily medicated, she never lost her determination to have the child she was bearing.
Academic text (2002) -
Dermatologists recommend medicated dandruff shampoo that contains the ingredients selenium sulfide, zinc, or ketoconazole.
Blog text (20) -
The doctor recommended that I medicate my allergy with these tablets.
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To speed up recovery, the nurse advised the patient to medicate regularly with the prescribed ointment.
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He needs to medicate his infection immediately to prevent it from worsening.
Synonyms
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7.0
Something that has a substance such as oil or pesticide added to it
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7.2
Give a drug to a person or animal to treat illness
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Morphology
Etymology
Medicate comes from the Latin root medic- meaning 'to heal', like in medicine and medic. In this sense, to medicate something is to treat it by putting medicine into or onto it so it can heal.