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MEDICATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat medicinally, treat with medicine

Synonyms:

medicate; medicine

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "medicate" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "medicate"):

dose; drug (administer a drug to)

salve (apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

medication (the act of treating with medicines or remedies)

medication ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

medicative (having the properties of medicine)

medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Impregnate with a medicinal substance

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "medicate" is one way to...):

impregnate; saturate (infuse or fill completely)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

medication (the act of treating with medicines or remedies)

medicative (having the properties of medicine)

medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

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