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

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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

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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
After Robin is gravely injured, he is taken in by the sage prioress Brigid (Jodie Comer), who nurses him back to health at an island convent.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 17 June 2026

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That force tightly binds particles known as quarks into composite particles such as protons and neutrons.

— Matt von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2026
This can happen when your burner is set too high, oil splatters and polymerizes (binds to) the exterior, or food boils over and bakes onto the enamel surface.

— Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 25 July 2026

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