overmedicate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ medicate

Verb

overmedicate (third-person singular simple present overmedicates, present participle overmedicating, simple past and past participle overmedicated)

  1. To medicate excessively
    • 2007 December 14, Joanne Kaufman, “Campaign on Childhood Mental Illness Succeeds at Being Provocative”, in New York Times‎:
      "I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said.
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