medicated; medicating
Definition of medicate
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 …— Charles Leerhsen
2
: to impregnate with a medicinal substance
medicated soap
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The first known use of medicate was circa 1623
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