medicates

verb

present tense third-person singular of medicate
as in doctors

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  1. doctors
  2. treats
  3. attends
  4. nurses
  5. binds
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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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  • Barn jackets suit a recipient who treats outerwear as the statement piece of an outfit.
    — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Brazil’s electoral prosecutor’s office told the court that Meta had not fully complied with the rulings, including a requirement to explain how its AI tool treats content about each candidate.
    — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of treats
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  • The novel attends to their quiet conversations, their modest meals, their everyday work, whether caring for the sick, staffing a thrift shop or demolishing a silo.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Every Black Dove attends to their duties with all deliberate stabbing, throat-slitting, and shooting speed, except for Reed.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of attends
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  • At the family estate, Sybylla, who nurses inchoate hopes of becoming a writer, is to be remade into a suitable wife.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of nurses
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  • Once lathered, the formula deploys papin, an enzyme that’s derived from papaya and helps dissolve the glue that binds dead skin cells.
    — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Researchers can tune a network’s structure using this self-adjusting behavior, which limits how many neighbors each particle binds to.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of binds
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“Medicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicates. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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