overprescribe
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Definition of overprescribe
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To prescribe (a drug) more frequently than appropriate.
“The drug maker Purdue Pharma has agreed […] to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe its painkiller OxyContin.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From over- + prescribe.
Words you can make from overprescribe
200+ playable · top: OVERPRECISE (18 pts)
Best play overprecise 18 points10-letter words
7 words9-letter words
15 words8-letter words
36 words- PERCEIVE 15 pts
- PREVERBS 15 pts
- PROVERBS 15 pts
- BREVIERS 13 pts
- COVERERS 13 pts
- OBSERVER 13 pts
- OVERRIPE 13 pts
- PERVERSE 13 pts
- PRESERVE 13 pts
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- RECEIVER 13 pts
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- SERVICER 13 pts
- CREEPERS 12 pts
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- CREPERIE 12 pts
- PIERCERS 12 pts
- PRECISER 12 pts
- PRESCORE 12 pts
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- OVERSEER 11 pts
- RESERVER 11 pts
- REVERERS 11 pts
- REVERIES 11 pts
- REVERSER 11 pts
- ROPERIES 10 pts
- SORCERER 10 pts
- ORRERIES 8 pts
7-letter words
68 words- PREVERB 14 pts
- PROVERB 14 pts
- BREVIER 12 pts
- CORVEES 12 pts
- COVERER 12 pts
- OBSERVE 12 pts
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- RECEIVE 12 pts
- RECOVER 12 pts
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- PRICERS 11 pts
- PROBERS 11 pts
- RECIPES 11 pts
- REPRICE 11 pts
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- EROSIVE 10 pts
- OVERSEE 10 pts
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- RESERVE 10 pts
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- RESCORE 9 pts
- RESPIRE 9 pts
- SEEPIER 9 pts
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- SORRIER 7 pts
6-letter words
73 words- BICEPS 12 pts
- BEEVES 11 pts
- BEVIES 11 pts
- BEVORS 11 pts
- BREVES 11 pts
- CORVEE 11 pts
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- COVERS 11 pts
- PEEVES 11 pts
- PERVOS 11 pts
- PROVER 11 pts
- PROVES 11 pts
- REVERB 11 pts
- BEEPER 10 pts
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- CORBIE 10 pts
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- CREEPS 10 pts
- CREPES 10 pts
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- PIECER 10 pts
- PIECES 10 pts
- PIERCE 10 pts
- PRECIS 10 pts
- PRICER 10 pts
- PRICES 10 pts
- PROBER 10 pts
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- REBECS 10 pts
- REBOPS 10 pts
- RECIPE 10 pts
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- REIVER 9 pts
- REIVES 9 pts
- REVERE 9 pts
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- REVISE 9 pts
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- EERIER 6 pts
- ERRORS 6 pts
- RERISE 6 pts
- REROSE 6 pts
- ROSIER 6 pts
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