Medicate vs Overmedicate - What's the difference?
medicate | overmedicate |
To medicate excessively
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As verbs the difference between medicate and overmedicate
is that medicate is to prescribe or administer medication while overmedicate is to medicate excessively.overmedicate
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(overmedicat)citation