medicates

verb

present tense third-person singular of medicate
as in doctors

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicates
  1. doctors
  2. treats
  3. attends
  4. nurses
  5. binds
Verb
  • 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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  • Well, time flies, because our bracket of cuteness has been narrowed down to one final matchup for all the marbles treats.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Sioux Falls regional water reclamation facility, which transports and treats wastewater from the city and surrounding communities is receiving $81 million in the budget.
    — Gabriel Brito, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of treats
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  • According to Mason Thrall, director of operations for the Capitol Region Education Council, the school van was transporting a student who attends Focus School on a Manchester Public Schools route.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026
  • That training continues on the job as Gus attends Welcome Week activities, first-day-of-school photos, athletic events and community programs.
    — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of attends
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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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  • Instead, the plasma is a mix of the constituents of hadrons and the nuclear force that binds them.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Gilligan’s portrait of their relationship is a study of how time binds people together.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
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“Medicates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicates. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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