Prescribe the boy some medication!
Source: tatoeba (448765)
Prescribe
//pɹɪˈskɹaɪb//
Synonyms for "prescribe" (110 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
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11 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
11 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 35 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- voorskryf verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- voorskryf verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Albanian
3 entries- parashkruaj verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- porosis verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- urdhëroj verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Arabic
2 entries- أَمَرَ verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- وَصَفَ verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Armenian
1 entries- նշանակել verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Basque
1 entries- errezetatu verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Bengali
1 entries- আদেশ করা verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Bulgarian
2 entries- давам предписание verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- предписвам verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Catalan
2 entries- prescriure verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- receptar verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 處方 /处方 verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- 規定 /规定 verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- 開藥 /开药 verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Czech
4 entries- nařizovat verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- ordinovat verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- předepisovat verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- předepisovat verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Dutch
2 entries- voorschrijven verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- voorschrijven verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Finnish
4 entries- kirjoittaa resepti verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- määrätä verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- määrätä verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- säätää verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
French
4 entries- indiquer verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordonner verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordonner verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- prescrire verb (to order a drug or medical device)
German
4 entries- verordnen verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- verordnen verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- verschreiben verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- vorschreiben verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Greek
1 entries- υπαγορεύω verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Hungarian
2 entries- előír verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- felír verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Ido
1 entries- preskriptar verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Indonesian
3 entries- memerintahkan verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- mempreskripsikan verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- meresepkan verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Italian
4 entries- ordinare verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordinare verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- prescrivere verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- prescrivere verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Japanese
2 entries- 処方する verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- 規定する verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Māori
2 entries- tūtohi verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- tūtohu verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- hwekeza verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Old English
1 entries- sċrīfan verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Persian
3 entries- تجویز کردن verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- نسخه نوشتن verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- نسخه پیچیدن verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Polish
4 entries- dyktować verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- nakazywać verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- ordynować verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordynować verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Portuguese
4 entries- ordenar verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- prescrever verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- prescrever verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- receitar verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Romanian
4 entries- ordona verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordona verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- prescrie verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- prescrie verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Russian
4 entries- назнача́ть verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- предпи́сывать verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- пропи́сывать verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- устана́вливать verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- propisívati verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- propisívati verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- прописи́вати verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- прописи́вати verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Slovak
4 entries- nariaďovať verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- ordinovať verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- predpisovať verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- predpisovať verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Spanish
4 entries- ordenar verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- prescribir verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- prescribir verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
- recetar verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Swedish
3 entries- föreskriva verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- ordinera verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- skriva ut verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Tagalog
1 entries- magreseta verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Turkish
1 entries- reçete yazmak verb (to order a drug or medical device)
Ukrainian
2 entries- признача́ти verb (to order a drug or medical device)
- припи́сувати verb (to specify as a required procedure or ritual)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
You should go to specialist, for now I will prescribe you medicine.
Source: tatoeba (687970)
Doctors receiving kickbacks from drug companies to prescribe their products is a growing problem.
Source: tatoeba (950935)
I will prescribe a febrifuge to you.
Source: tatoeba (2880506)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.