medicate
verb (used with object)
to treat with medicine or medicaments.
unmedicated
-
a word derived from
medicate.
Example Sentences
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Cauchi, who was first diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens, was unmedicated and homeless at the time of the attack.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Around ten years ago, Anacker's team discovered unusually high levels of SGK1 -- a stress-responsive protein -- in the blood of unmedicated patients with depression.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2025
This is Wells’ first IUD, so she can’t compare a medicated insertion to an unmedicated one.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2025
The “literal” merging takes us back to the show’s supernatural elements — if they even exist, and aren’t just projections of our unmedicated and malnourished characters’ fraying mental states.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025
Crossing Fourteenth Street, an unmedicated psychotic would brandish a toilet brush, his mouth moving wordlessly as, in my head, the young people of France requested a table with a view of the fountain.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
