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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Hannah Seo, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
At the height of the student protests over the war in Gaza last April, Tran was part of the NYPD’s social media team and often working double and triple tours, including a 31-hour stretch, without a day off and medicating with alcohol, sources familiar with the report said.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
Never frozen or medicated, the turkeys taste earthy with a whiff of fresh meadow and salty, ocean air.
—Sylvie Bigar, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Even toward the end of his life, Perry remained in good spirits, despite being heavily medicated and in pain.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Medicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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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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