giving medication

1. 1.

   the act of administering medication

   Synonymsadministration

   Broadermedication

   Narrowerdrip feedsedation

Questions about giving medication

What does giving medication mean?

giving medication means "the act of administering medication".

What is another word for giving medication?

Close synonyms include administration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is giving medication a common word?

giving medication is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.