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Drug
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- 1 A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
"Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature."
- 2 A drudge. obsolete
"Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot"
- 3 a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic wordnet
- 4 A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
"We took drugs and partied all night."
- 5 Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted. broadly
"Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of"
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- 6 Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
"And virtue shall a drug become."
- 7 Ellipsis of drugstore. Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
"“I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”"
- 1 To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. transitive
"She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged."
- 2 simple past and past participle of drag Southern-US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
"You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile."
- 3 administer a drug to wordnet
- 4 To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. transitive
"She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged."
- 5 use recreational drugs wordnet
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- 6 To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. intransitive
"Past all the doses of your drugging doctors"
- 7 To use intoxicating drugs. intransitive, rare
"To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day."
Etymology
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Middle English drug, drog, drugh, drogh, from Old English drōg, from Proto-Germanic *drōg; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.
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