prescribe

prescribe is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
2. transitive verb. To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
3. intransitive verb. To give directions; to dictate.
4. intransitive verb. To influence by long use
5. intransitive verb. To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
6. intransitive verb. To claim by prescription; to claim a title to a thing on the ground of immemorial use and enjoyment, that is, by a custom having the force of law.
7. verb. issue commands or orders for

   Synonyms: dictate, order

Synonyms

dictate, order

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in prescribe:

perscribe

Common word forms

prescribed, prescriber, prescribes, prescribing

Words from these letters

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