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[druhg] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, drugged, drug·ging.
[druhg] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, drugged, drug·ging. –noun
–verb (used with object)
—Verb phrase
—Idiom
| 1. | Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. |
| 2. | (in federal law)
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| 3. | a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, esp. a narcotic. |
| 4. | drugs,
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| 5. | Obsolete. any ingredient used in chemistry, pharmacy, dyeing, or the like. |
| 6. | to administer a medicinal drug to. |
| 7. | to stupefy or poison with a drug. |
| 8. | to mix (food or drink) with a drug, esp. a stupefying, narcotic, or poisonous drug. |
| 9. | to administer anything nauseous to. |
| 10. | drug up, to take a narcotic drug: The addict prowled about for a place to drug up. |
| 11. | drug on the market, a commodity that is overabundant or in excess of demand in the market. Also, drug in the market. |
[Origin: 1300–50; ME drogges (pl.) < MF drogue, of obscure orig.
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Drug
[droo
g] Pronunciation Key
[droo
g] Pronunciation Key –noun Zoroastrianism.
| the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood. |
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| drug
(drŭg) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. drugged, drug·ging, drugs
[Middle English drogge, from Old French drogue, drug, perhaps from Middle Dutch droge (vate), dry (cases), pl. of drog, dry.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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drug
1327, from O.Fr. drouge, perhaps from M.Du. or M.L.G. droge-vate "dry barrels," with first element mistaken as word for the contents (see dry goods), or because medicines mostly consisted of dried herbs. Application to "narcotics and opiates" is 1883, though association with "poisons" is 1500s. The verb is from 1605. Druggie first recorded 1968. Drug-store is 1810; drug-store cowboy is 1925, Amer.Eng. slang, originally one who dressed like a Westerner but obviously wasn't. To be a drug on or in the market (c.1661) is of doubtful connection and may be a different word, perhaps drag, which was sometimes drug c.1240-1800.
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| drug | |
noun | |
| 1. | a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic |
verb | |
| 1. | administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" |
| 2. | use recreational drugs |
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(drŭg) Pronunciation Key
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drug (drŭg)
n.
- A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.
- Such a substance as recognized or defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
- A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.
- To administer a drug, especially in an overly large quantity, to an individual.
- To stupefy or dull with or as if with a drug; to narcotize.
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Drug
Drug\, v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." --Chaucer.
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Drug
Drug\, n. A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
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Drug
Drug\, n. [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.
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Drug
Drug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] [Cf. F. droguer.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. --B. Jonson.
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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.
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