Sample sentences for PRESCRIBE

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Definition

to recommend or require what should be done

or more specifically:

of a medical doctor: to give medical instructions — such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics

The doctor prescribed an antibiotic for the infection.

prescribed = gave medical instructions instructing that the patient should take

The procedure is prescribed by law.

prescribed = required

The doctor wrote a prescription for an antibiotic.

prescription = a medical instruction

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

My boss prescribed I take the rest of the week off and start fresh on Monday.

prescribed = recommended

She first took opiates when they were prescribed for a back spasm.

prescribed = recommended by a doctor

His room smelled of turpentine, which Doc had prescribed as a liniment for the pulled ligament.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

prescribed = given medical instructions to use

Peter, by the gift of Aslan, by election, by prescription, and by conquest...
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

prescription = recommendation or required by law

Nardo was busy sorting out prescriptions in a cardboard box.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

prescriptions = medicines with a doctor's instructions

(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)

she would say to her friends, "Ivan Ilych can't do as other people do, and keep to the treatment prescribed for him."
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych

prescribed = recommend

He gave me a prescription.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

prescription = medical instructions

Only if the doctor prescribes it.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

prescribes = gives medical instructions ordering

He had not filled Dan Gunn's prescriptions.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

prescriptions = a doctor's instructions to get certain medicines

prescription for that cough
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

prescription = medical instructions written by a doctor

He was doing nothing less now, he thought, then prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

prescribing = recommending or requiring what should be done

or more specifically:

of a medical doctor: giving medical instructions — such as writing that a patient should take antibiotics

I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day;
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper

prescription = recommendation, instruction, or rule

I'm curious to know her every thought, her diagnosis, her prognosis, her prescription.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

prescription = medical recommendation

You shall do that which the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

prescribe = require

I thought, even then, that this doctor needed the Valium he prescribed for me more than I did.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

prescribed = instructed to be given

The earliest so-called "food expert" was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who prescribed all-grape diets and hourly enemas before going on to launch the cereal company.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma

prescribed = recommended

Mama, of course, noticed the tightening in my face. My bad headaches and asthma attacks worried her. "You need rest," she prescribed one afternoon and sent me to bed in Papa's room, the coolest in the house.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

prescribed = recommended

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