MEDICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medicate mean? 

• MEDICATE (verb)
  The verb MEDICATE has 2 senses:

1. impregnate with a medicinal substance

2. treat medicinally, treat with medicine

  Familiarity information: MEDICATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they medicate    ... he / she / it medicates   
Past simple: medicated   
Past participle: medicated   
-ing form: medicating   

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Treat medicinally, treat with medicine

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

medicate; medicine

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)

 Context examples 

Wearing shoes that fit better or using non-medicated pads may help.

(Corns and Calluses, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

The pupils may be dilated (enlarged) with medicated eye drops so the doctor can see through the pupil to the back of the eye.

(Fundoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

After shaking, the medicated globules are dried at temperatures not to exceed 40 degrees Centigrade.

(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called medicated urethral system for erection.

(MUSE, NCI Dictionary)

They are formed into small globular masses of various sizes, and are medicated by placing them in a vial and adding the liquid drug attenuation in the proportion not less than one percent (v/w).

(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)