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CONTRAINDICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they contraindicate ... he / she / it contraindicates
Past simple: contraindicated
Past participle: contraindicated
-ing form: contraindicating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a treatment inadvisable
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "contraindicate" is one way to...):
advise; counsel; rede (give advice to)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Antonym:
indicate (to state or express briefly)
indicate (suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine)
Derivation:
contraindication ((medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment)
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