All 11 Uses of
prescribe
in
Lucky by Sebold
- I thought, even then, that this doctor needed the Valium he prescribed for me more than I did.
Chpt 1 *prescribed = instructed to be given
- When he left the room I did what I knew I would do almost immediately, and crumpled up the prescription to throw it into the waste bin.†
Chpt 1
- I clung to it, coming in and out of consciousness on my way to the hospital, during the internal stitches of the pelvic exam, and while the psychiatrist gave me the prescription for the very pills that had once made my mother numb.†
Chpt 1
- My mother had always been nervous; she never acclimated to her prescribed role as housewife.†
Chpt 3
- He jumped on this: "New prescription or just new design of frame?"†
Chpt 8
- Prescription the same?†
Chpt 8
- Prescribed by whom?†
Chpt 8
- December 1980,1 think, was my last prescription.†
Chpt 8
- Prescribed and made in 1980, is that correct?†
Chpt 8
- That my prescription had been updated six months before the rape.†
Chpt 8
- The police brought me to Grouse Irving Memorial Hospital and I went to the lab, where they prescribed medication for my facial cuts.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(prescribe) 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