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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Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
Amelia, frightened by her son’s behavior, is forced to medicate him.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
According to prosecutors, the Bureau of Prisons previously considered involuntarily medicating Coleman under a different law.
—Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
In one, patients were confined to a locked unit and heavily medicated.
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“Medicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicate. Accessed 8 Nov. 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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