drug
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Noun (1)drugs
- a substance that is used as a medicine or narcoticType of agentKinds medicine, psychoactive drug, stimulant, fertility drug, psychotropic agent, generic drug, suppressant, botanical, antagonist, virility drug +22 morePart of pharmacopoeia
Verb (2)drugged, drugging, drugs
- administer a drug to“They drugged the kidnapped tourist”Synonyms: doseMore general medicate, medicineMore specific narcotize, anesthetize, dope, poison, overdose
- use recreational drugsSynonyms: do drugsMore general use, habituateMore specific dope, drop, take a hit, free-base, injectCauses trip, trip out
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Translations
Noun narcotic, recreational drug
- Spanish
- droga
- French
- drogue
- German
- Droge
- Italian
- droga
- Portuguese
- droga
- Turkish
- uyuşturucu
- Russian
- нарко́тик narkótik
- Arabic
- مُخَدِّر muḵaddir
- Chinese
- 毒品 dúpǐn
- Japanese
- 薬物 yakubutsu
26 more languages
- Dutch
- drug
- Polish
- narkotyk
- Swedish
- drog
- Greek
- ναρκωτικό narkotikó
- Korean
- 마약 mayak
- Indonesian
- narkoba
- Vietnamese
- ma túy
- Hungarian
- kábítószer
- Portuguese (PT)
- droga
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 毒品 dúpǐn
- Catalan
- droga
- Czech
- droga
- Danish
- narkotikum
- Esperanto
- drogo
- Finnish
- huume
- Georgian
- ნარკოტიკი narḳoṭiḳi
- Hebrew
- סַם sam
- Icelandic
- fíkniefni
- Kurdish
- tilyak
- Lithuanian
- narkotikas
- Norwegian
- narkotikum
- Romanian
- drog
- Serbo-Croatian
- droga
- Slovenian
- mamilo
- Swahili
- dawa ya kulevya
- Welsh
- cyffur
Verb to administer intoxicating drugs
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: See 1st Drudge.
To drudge; to toil laboriously. obsolete “To drugge and draw.” Geoffrey Chaucer
A drudge (?). Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Origin: F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.
1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.
Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs.— John Milton
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; — used often in the phrase “a drug on the market”. “But sermons are mere drugs.” Henry Fielding
And virtue shall a drug become.— John Dryden
3. any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
4. any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority.
5. any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs. Syn. — illegal drug.
They [smaller and poorer nations] have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it.— Christopher S. Wren (N Y. Times, June 10, 1998, p. A5)
Origin: Cf. F. droguer.
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. Ben Jonson
1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses... [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles.— Charles Kingsley
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it.— Alfred Tennyson
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws.— John Milton
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors