Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
- 3intransitive verb
To give directions; to dictate.
- 4intransitive verb
To influence by long use
- 5intransitive verb
To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.
- 6intransitive 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.
- 7verb
issue commands or orders for
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