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Medicate

//ˈmɛdɪkeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To prescribe or administer medication to. transitive
  2. 2
    treat medicinally, treat with medicine wordnet
  3. 3
    To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on. transitive

    "I started to think of food as my friend instead of my foe. It medicates my body. Every bite of food I intake I think of how it is going to make me stronger and help all my organs function."

  4. 4
    impregnate with a medicinal substance wordnet

Etymology

From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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