Overmedicate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To medicate excessively

    ""I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said."

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""I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said."

Etymology

From over- + medicate.

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