drug

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Meaning

1. A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
2. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
3. Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
4. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
5. (informal) Short for drugstore.

drug

medicine

narcotic

medicament

medication

remedy

pharmaceutical

dope

dose

opiate

potion

medicinal drug

cure

pill

stupefy

antidote

narcotics

poison

pharmacon

stimulant

tablet

pharmaceutic

do drugs

specific

juice

preparation

intoxicate

herb

anaesthetic

psychoactive drug

psychoactive substance

curative

agency

avenue

expedience

expedient

means

recourse

resource

way

anesthetize

adulterate

treatment

inebriant

intoxicant

pharmacy

candy

elixir

medicate

narcotize

treat

fertilizer

manure

organic

apply a medicine

smack

sweet

article

being

commodity

matter

substance

thing

make drunk

soporific

torporific

pharmaceutical product

medicinal

materia medica

medicamentum

medicant

narcotic drug

chemical

sedative

befuddle

besot

narcotise

nobble

trance

drug of abuse

hallucinogen

drugs

serum

tonic

ether

intoxication

recreational drug

therapy

get high

lotion

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹʌɡ/

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), 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”).

Cognate with English

dry

Cognate with Dutch

droog

Cognate with German

trocken

Cognate with Dutch

droeg

Cognate with German

trug

New

drag

1. Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
2. Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
3. The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
4. A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
5. (informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
6. A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
7. (informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
8. (slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
9. (slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
10. (slang) A street.
11. The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
12. A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
13. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
14. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
15. The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
16. A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
17. The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
18. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
19. A pulled load.
20. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
21. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
22. Witch house music.
23. The last position in a line of hikers.
24. A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
25. A device for guiding wood to the saw.
26. A mailcoach.
27. (slang) A prison sentence of three months.

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