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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdɪkeɪt/

動詞

medicate (三人称単数 現在形 medicates, 現在分詞 medicating, 過去形および過去分詞形 medicated)

1. (transitive) To prescribe or administer medication to.
2. (transitive, of a substance) To have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.
   • 1998 September 7, Aimee Harms, “Change of heart”, in alt.support.eating-disord, Usenet‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2008 March 18, Logan Shaw, “Antihistamine nasal spray over the counter?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living, Usenet‎^[2]:

     I would just buy Claritin, or its generic equivalent Loratadine. It's non-drowsy, it's cheap, and it works. Yes, it medicates your whole system, but I don't know of any significant ill effects from that.

派生語

• self-medicate

関連する語

• medication

参考

• prescribe

アナグラム

• decimate, edematic

Latin

Participle

medicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of medicātus