medicate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To prescribe or administer medication to. transitive
  2. 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.

词形变化

medicates present,singular,third-person medicating participle,present medicated participle,past medicated past

词汇关系

衍生词
automedicate medicative nonmedicated overmedicate polymedicate premedicate premedicated self-medicate undermedicated unmedicated
相关词
medication prescribe

词源

Etymology tree
Latin medicō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English medicate
From Latin medicō (“heal, cure”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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