medicate
Verb
Verb Forms: medicated, medicating, medicates
- To treat someone or something with medicine.
- impregnate with a medicinal substance
- treat medicinally, treat with medicine
- To prescribe or administer medication to.
- To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
Examples
- I need to MEDICATE this board with some high-value letters to improve my score!
Origin / Etymology
From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
medicate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmedicate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
medicate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
medicate: valid Words With Friends Word