drug

Meaning

Noun

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. (broadly) 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. (Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal) Ellipsis of drugstore.

Verb

1. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
4. (intransitive, rare) To use intoxicating drugs.

Verb

simple past and past participle of drag

drag

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Synonyms

medicine

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narcotic

medicament

medication

remedy

dope

pharmaceutical

dose

opiate

medicinal drug

potion

cure

pill

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antidote

stupefy

pharmacon

psychoactive drug

anaesthetic

poison

preparation

do drugs

psychoactive substance

stimulant

herb

🌿

intoxicate

tablet

narcotics

juice

specific

curative

pharmaceutic

pharmaceutical product

recourse

resource

sedative

serum

smack

soporific

substance

sweet

thing

tonic

trance

treat

treatment

way

get high

make drunk

medicamentum

medicant

Translations

drogue

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droga

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droga

Droge

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médicament

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farmaco

Arznei

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medicamento

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Rauschgift

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Medizin

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φάρμακο

remédio

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medicamento

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medicina

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remède

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹʌɡ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drogge

Cognate with English: dry

Cognate with Dutch: droog

Cognate with German: trocken

Inherited from Middle English: drug

Cognate with Dutch: droeg

Cognate with German: trug

Cognate with Swedish: drog

In summary

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”).

Sentences

Increasing the dose of the drug may be able to restore the original response .

Early drug nomenclature was based on the chemical structure .