medicate

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med·i·cate | \ ˈme-di-ˌkāt

medicated; medicating

Definition of medicate

transitive verb

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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Examples of medicate in a Sentence

The patient had been heavily medicated.

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