Definition of MEDICATE

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

medicine

Scrabble Score: 13

medicate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
medicate: 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