overprescribe

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate. transitive
    — The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.

词形变化

overprescribes present,singular,third-person overprescribing participle,present overprescribed participle,past overprescribed past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Latin praescrībōbor.
English prescribe
English overprescribe
From over- + prescribe.
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