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Meaning of DRUG

Pronunciation:  drug

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
  2. [v]  administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
  3. [v]  use recreational drugs
 
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 Synonyms: do drugs, dose
 
 See Also: aborticide, abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug, agent, anaesthetic, anaesthetic agent, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetic, anesthetic agent, anesthetise, anesthetize, anit-impotence drug, antagonist, antisyphilitic, anti-TNF compound, appetite suppressant, base, consciousness-altering drug, consume, dilator, diuretic, diuretic drug, dope, dope, dope up, drug of abuse, Feosol, Fergon, fertility drug, free-base, get off, have, hypnotic, ingest, inject, intoxicant, levallorphan, Lorfan, medicament, medicate, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, medicine, mind-altering drug, mydriatic, mydriatic drug, narcotic, narcotise, narcotize, o.d., overdose, pentoxifylline, pharmacopoeia, poison, psychoactive drug, psychoactive substance, psychotropic agent, put out, put to sleep, put under, relaxant, snort, soporific, stimulant, stimulant drug, street drug, suppressant, synergist, take, take a hit, take in, Trental, trip, trip out, turn on, virility drug

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Drug\, v. i. [See 1st {Drudge}.]
    To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] ``To drugge and
    draw.'' --Chaucer.
    
  2. \Drug\, n.
    A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
    
  3. \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.
    
  4. \Drug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Drugging}.] [Cf. F. droguer.]
    To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. --B. Jonson.
    
  5. \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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Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are in possession of or taking drugs means your need for a "quick fix". You may be turning to a potentially harmful alternative as an instant escape from your problems. Ask yourself why you need the drugs. What do you hope the drugs will achieve for you?
 
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