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drug
1 [druhg]
noun, verb, drugged, drug⋅ging.–noun
| 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. |
–verb (used with object)
—Verb phrase| 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.
1300–50; ME drogges (pl.) < MF drogue, of obscure orig.

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Drug
Drug\, v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." --Chaucer.Drug
Drug\, n. A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).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.Drug
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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Language Translation for : drug
Spanish:
medicamento,
German:
das Medikament,
Japanese:
薬
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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Main Entry: 1drug
Pronunciation: 'dr&g
Function: noun
1 a : a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication b according to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1) : a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (2) : a substance intended for use in thediagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease (3) : a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body (4) : a substance intendedfor use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device
2 : something and often an illicit substance that causes addiction,habituation, or a marked change in consciousness
Main Entry: 2drug
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: drugged; drug·ging
transitive senses
1 : to affect with a drug;especially : to stupefy by a narcotic drug
2 : to administer a drug to drug intransitive senses
: to take drugs for narcotic effect
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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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