drug
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Is drug a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.Examples: "Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature."; "The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased."; "whence merchants bring their spicy drugs"Synonyms: pharmaceutical, drug, medication, medicine, medicament, pharmaceutical drug
2. (by extension) Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.Examples: "Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of"; "Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]"; "Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one."broadly
3. (Canada, US, informal) Ellipsis of drugstore.Examples: "“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.”"CanadaUSabbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.Examples: "She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged."transitive
2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.Examples: "She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged."transitive
3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.Examples: "Past all the doses of your drugging doctors"intransitive
4. (intransitive, rare) To use intoxicating drugs.Examples: "To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day."intransitiverare
verb (English)
1. (dialectal, chiefly Southern US) simple past and past participle of dragExamples: "You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile."; "look what the cat drug in"; "[…] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in."Southern-USdialectalform-ofparticiplepast
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A drudge.Examples: "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"obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary