medicine
medicine is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
- noun. Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
- noun. A philter or love potion.
- noun. A physician.
- transitive verb. To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.
- noun. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
"he studied medicine at Harvard"
- noun. punishment for one's actions
"you have to face the music"
"take your medicine"
- noun. (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
- noun. the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
- verb. treat medicinally, treat with medicine
Synonyms
music, medicament, medication, medicate
Common word forms
medicined, mediciner, medicines, medicining
Words from these letters
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