medicate
🇺🇸
/ˈmedɪkeɪt/
🇬🇧
/ˈmedɪkeɪt/
verb
R
to give someone medicine, especially to change the way they act or feel
The doctor decided to medicate the patient to help him sleep.
R
to treat an illness or health problem with medicine or drugs
The child was medicated for his allergy to make the symptoms go away.
translation
to give someone medicine, especially to change the way they act or feel; to treat an illness or health problem with medicine or drugs
Word Forms
3rd Present
medicates
Past
medicated
Perfect
medicated
Progressive
medicating