MEDICATE meaning: Administer drugs to treat illness

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word medicate:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

medicate: Merriam-Webster
medicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
medicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
medicate: Collins English Dictionary
medicate: Vocabulary.com
Medicate, medicate: Wordnik
medicate: Wiktionary
medicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
medicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
medicate: Infoplease Dictionary
medicate: Dictionary.com
medicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Medicate (Gabbie Hanna song), Medicate (song), Medicate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Medicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
medicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
medicate: Rhymezone
medicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
medicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
medicate: FreeDictionary.org
medicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
medicate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

medicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

medicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

medicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
medicate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (medicate)

▸ verb: (transitive) To prescribe or administer medication to.
▸ verb: (transitive, of a substance) To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.

Opposite:

unmedicate, abstain, avoid, refrain

Types:

pill, tablet, capsule, liquid, injection, suppository, topical, more...

Phrases:

self medicate, Isolate and Medicate, more...

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