› to treat someone with a medicine:
Patients are usually medicated with tranquillizers before having anaesthesia.
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"medicate" in English
(Definition of “medicate” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
"medicate" in American English
(Definition of “medicate” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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