medicate
verb/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
Etymology
From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Definitions
To prescribe or administer medication to.
To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment
To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
- 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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
- neighbormedication
- neighborprescribe
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for medicate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA