drug
/ˈdɹʌɡ/ noun A2- 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.· The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. · We took drugs and partied all night.· They're on drugs.
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
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This effort was framed and hung in the drug store window by the side of the ear of corn with an uneven number of rows.
He rushed downstairs and sent somebody—they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement—out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with.
At the corner stood a drug store, brilliant with electric lights.
He sold a drug, pretending that it was an antidote to all poisons, and obtained a great name for himself by long-winded puffs and advertisements.
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