containing menthol; treated or impregnated with menthol
mentholated in American English
(ˈmenθəˌleitɪd)
adjective
1.
saturated with or containing menthol
a mentholated cough drop
2.
covered or treated with menthol
Word origin
[1930–35; menthol + -ate1 + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: DNA, boondoggle, hypercorrection, logical positivism, technical foul-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate); -ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, loaded, sheltered, unattended, unsettled
Examples of 'mentholated' in a sentence
mentholated
Now it has mentholated brands in its sights.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
You'll get the diesel and mentholated lemon on the nose, and a lingering finish.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Use this cooling, mentholated gel in the shower gently to slough away dead skin cells and any unsightly peeling.