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DRUG
drug
(noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
drug, dose
(verb) administer a drug to; “They drugged the kidnapped tourist”
drug, do drugs
(verb) use recreational drugs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
Synonyms
See pharmaceutical, recreational drug
Verb
drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)
(transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
(transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
(intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Etymology 2
Verb
drug
(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
Usage notes
• Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this sense.
Etymology 3
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
(obsolete) A drudge.
Source: Wiktionary
Drug, v. i. Etym: [See 1st Drudge.]
Definition: To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.
Drug, n.
Definition: A drudge. Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Drug, n. Etym: [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; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations. Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. Milton.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.
Drug, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] Etym: [Cf. F. droguer.]
Definition: To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.
Drug, v. t.
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. C. Kingsley. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious. Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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