medicate
verb
med·i·cate
ˈme-di-ˌkāt 
medicated; medicating
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 …—
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: to impregnate with a medicinal substance
medicated soap
Examples of medicate in a Sentence
The patient had been heavily medicated.
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Laura Smith’s son Ethan was medicated and treated for ADHD for most of his childhood.
—Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
By 2010, the U.S. health-care system was dispensing enough opioids each year for everyone in the country to be medicated round the clock for a month.
—Keith Humphreys, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
Joyce was a home health nurse who had gone to a halfway house to medicate one of her patients.
—Seema Pillai, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
In a motion filed about a week ago asking a judge to launch that decision-making process, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego began laying out arguments for why Coleman should be involuntarily medicated.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
By 2010, the U.S. health-care system was dispensing enough opioids each year for everyone in the country to be medicated round the clock for a month.
—Keith Humphreys, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
Joyce was a home health nurse who had gone to a halfway house to medicate one of her patients.
—Seema Pillai, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
In a motion filed about a week ago asking a judge to launch that decision-making process, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego began laying out arguments for why Coleman should be involuntarily medicated.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
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“Medicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicate. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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medicate
transitive verb
med·i·cate
ˈmed-ə-ˌkāt
medicated; medicating
1
: to treat medicinally
2
: to impregnate with a medicinal substance
medicated soap
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