verb
Meaning 1
To prescribe or administer medication to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
medicate
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: M EH1 D IH0 K EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
treat medicinally, treat with medicine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: medicine
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: treat, care for
Narrower terms: drug, dose, salve
verb
Meaning 4
impregnate with a medicinal substance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: impregnate, saturate
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin medicō Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English medicate From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лекувам с лекарство (lekuvam s lekarstvo) — administer medication
- Dutch: medicineren — administer medication
- Finnish: lääkitä — administer medication
- Galician: medicar — administer medication
- German: verschreiben — administer medication
- German: medizieren — administer medication
- German: medizinisch behandeln — administer medication
- Ido: medikamentizar — administer medication
- Latin: medico — administer medication
- Ligurian: mêgâ — administer medication
- Portuguese: medicar — administer medication
- Spanish: medicar — administer medication
- Spanish: medicinar — administer medication
- Swedish: medicinera — administer medication
- Turkish: ilaç yazmak — administer medication
- Turkish: ilaç vermek — administer medication
- Ottoman Turkish: علاجلامق (ʼilâclamak) — administer medication
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