prescribe
/pɹʌskɹˈaɪb/verb2 syllables
Prescribe means: issue commands or orders for.
Synonyms for prescribe2
What does prescribe mean?3
verb
1
issue commands or orders for
2
recommend as beneficial“my mother prescribes a good night's sleep as the cure for all ills”
3
(medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription“the doctor prescribed steroids for my ear trouble”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with prescribe?6
Prescribe in a sentence
- Doctors receiving kickbacks from drug companies to prescribe their products is a growing problem.darinmex
- In our country psychotherapists can rightly prescribe drugs while psychologists can't.marioo
- I'll prescribe a medicine for you now - it should help.TATAR1
- You should go to specialist, for now I will prescribe you medicine.lukaszpp
- The church does not proscribe monarchy and prescribe democracy, or proscribe democracy and prescribe monarchy.shekitten
- I will prescribe a febrifuge to you.astynk
- Doctors who accepted multiple free meals were three times more likely to prescribe name brand medicine.Cangarejo
- I'm going to prescribe some antibiotics.CK
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Forms of prescribe
as a verb
- past tense
- prescribed
- present participle
- prescribing
- third-person singular
- prescribes