DRUGGING

sedation, drugging

(noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug

DRUG

drug, dose

(verb) administer a drug to; “They drugged the kidnapped tourist”

drug, do drugs

(verb) use recreational drugs

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

drugging

present participle of drug

Noun

drugging (plural druggings)

The act of giving a dose of drugs.

Anagrams

• grudging

Source: Wiktionary


DRUG

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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