medicate

present singular third person medicates · participle present medicating · participle past medicated · past medicated

1. transitiveTo prescribe or administer medication to.
2. transitiveTo have a medicinal or healing effect on a person, body part, or ailment; to act on.

   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.

   1998 September 7, Aimee Harms, “Change of heart”, in alt.support.eating-disord (Usenet)

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   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.

   2008 March 18, Logan Shaw, “Antihistamine nasal spray over the counter?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet)