drug
/ˈdɹʌɡ/ verb C2- To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. · She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
- To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. · She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
- To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
He/she/it drugs · Past drugged · Past participle drugged · -ing form drugging
Verb forms
- Base form
- drug
- He/she/it
- drugs
- Past
- drugged
- Past participle
- drugged
- -ing form
- drugging
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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.
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.
If the child were pricked with one of those arrows dipped in curare or some other devilish drug, it would mean death if the venom were not sucked out.
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