MEDICATES Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

medicates

verb

present tense third-person singular of medicate

as in doctors

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After her godson doctors her résumé, Maya lands a C-suite job at a beauty company and almost immediately makes an enemy out of the boss’ daughter.

— James Mercadante, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Definition of doctors

Verb

Another point is to mandate that all military intelligence infrastructure treats AI-derived target assessments as highly suspect, rather than highly accurate.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
After the police crackdown, that resentment was directed at Modi himself, who was seen as the face of a system that treats ordinary people like cockroaches.

— Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of treats

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Ultimately, Etna’s closest bond is with the itinerant medic Hong who nurses his emaciated, shrapnel-scarred body.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Rachel dates a shoe store operator named Lou (Bob Hoskins), while Charlotte nurses a crush on her handsome young school bus driver and flirts with Catholicism to the chagrin of her Jewish mother.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 17 July 2026

Definition of nurses

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The drug binds to a pocket that forms only when KRAS carries one of these mutations.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
This then binds to specific serotonin receptors in the brain, which temporarily rebuilds the networks involved in memory, emotions and cognition interact.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of binds

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