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drug en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɾʌɡ/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • /dɹɐɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • [ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɹʊɡ/ (Northern-England)
  • [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdɹʌɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

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 *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Displaced native Old English lybb (“drug, medicine”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Meanings

  1. A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
    • whence merchants bring their spicy drugs 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
    • In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain. 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:
    • 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.
  2. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
    • Cannabis use disorder is usually defined as a problematic use of the drug: developing tolerance to weed; using cannabis in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended; being unable to reduce use; spending a lot of time obtaining, using or recovering from the effects of cannabis; giving up important activities and obligations in favor of cannabis; and continued use of the drug despite negative consequences. 2021 July 22, Katie Hunt, “Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds”, in CNN:
    • The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer. 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, →ISBN, page 19:
    • She used to be a drug addict.
    • They're on drugs.
    • We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 3:
    • You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot. 1991 March 14, unknown student, “Antihero opinion”, in SPIN, page 70:
    • We took drugs and partied all night.
  3. (broadly) Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
    • The truth is...eating is my drug. When I am upset, I eat...when I am sad, I eat...when I am happy, I eat. 2011, Joslyn Shy, Introducing the Truth, page 5:
    • Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […] 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8:
    • Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of 1975, Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, “Love Is the Drug”, in Siren, performed by Roxy Music:
    • Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one. 2009, Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves, page 8:
    • Because your love, your love, your love is my drug 2010, Ke$ha, Pebe Sebert, Joshua Coleman (Ammo), “Your Love is My Drug”, performed by Ke$ha:
  4. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
    • […] Sermons are mere Drugs. The Trade is ſo vaſtly ſtocked vvith them, that really unleſs they come out vvith the Name of VVhitfield [i.e, George Whitefield] or VVeſtley [John Wesley], or ſome other ſuch great Man, as a Biſhop, or thoſe ſort of People, I don't care to touch, […] 1742, Henry Fielding, “A Pleasant Discourse between the Two Parsons and the Bookseller, […]”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 117:
    • And virtue shall a drug become. 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691:
  5. (Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal) Ellipsis of drugstore.
    alt of drugstore
    • “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.” 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:

Forms

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drugs Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

counterdrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-fiend (terms derived from drug (noun)) · street drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug bust (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug addict (terms derived from drug (noun)) · gateway drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug trafficking (terms derived from drug (noun)) · rave drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · polydrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugtaking (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-dealer (terms derived from drug (noun)) · hug drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug cartel (terms derived from drug (noun)) · designer drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · smart drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · do drugs (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug deal (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugome (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug user (terms derived from drug (noun)) · nondrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug of choice (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug lord (terms derived from drug (noun)) · sulfa drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugstore (terms derived from drug (noun)) · metallodrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugeteria (terms derived from drug (noun)) · orphan drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · [Term?] (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug dependence (terms derived from drug (noun)) · nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · codrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · truth drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug driving (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugless (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugsploitation (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug of last resort (terms derived from drug (noun)) · miracle drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug pusher (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug dealer (terms derived from drug (noun)) · small molecule drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druglore (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druggery (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druglike (terms derived from drug (noun)) · antidrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druggo (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug den (terms derived from drug (noun)) · predrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug rug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · hair drug test (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug use (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug trafficker (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugproof (terms derived from drug (noun)) · postdrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug lab (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug baron (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druggist (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug naïve (terms derived from drug (noun)) · club drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · love drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · hard drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · bedrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug on the market (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug abuse (terms derived from drug (noun)) · prescription drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · sex drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug addiction (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug abuser (terms derived from drug (noun)) · soft drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug dog (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druglord (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug house (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-ridden (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-free (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug fiend (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug driver (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug running (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugshop (terms derived from drug (noun)) · combination drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · parent drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug mule (terms derived from drug (noun)) · polydrugs (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug withdrawal (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug naive (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug wormseed (terms derived from drug (noun)) · lifestyle drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugmaker (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug test (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug joint (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugster (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugability (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug runner (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugfree (terms derived from drug (noun)) · wonderdrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug holiday (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug challenge (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-naive (terms derived from drug (noun)) · multidrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · blockbuster drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · controlled drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug store (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug in the market (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugbuster (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-addled (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugtaker (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druggy (terms derived from drug (noun)) · fertility drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · druggie (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugger (terms derived from drug (noun)) · prodrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · Z-drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · wonder drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drugola (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug problem (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug-naïve (terms derived from drug (noun)) · date rape drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug run (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drug ring (terms derived from drug (noun)) · recreational drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · phytodrug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · dance drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · drughead (terms derived from drug (noun)) · dissociative drug (terms derived from drug (noun)) · nanodrug (terms derived from drug (noun))

Descendants

drỳg · Drogg

Synonyms

horse · stuff · gear · drug · pharmaceutical · pharmaceutical drug · medication · substance · conservatory · recreational drug · dope · medicine · medicament · drug

Translations (170)

el ναρκωτικό (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · apw izeeʼ dénchǫʼí (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · nb legemiddel (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ro drog (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · my ဆေး (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 藥品 /药品 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · cmn 藥 /药 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ms ubat (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ko 마약 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · da narkotikum (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · dsb droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · co druga (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ms dadah (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · da rusmiddel (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · oc dròga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 藥物 /药物 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ja 薬剤 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · kk еліткіш (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cy cyffur (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sl droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sw dawa ya famasia (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · sh narkòtik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mn наркотик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sa अगद (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · rup droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ka ნარკოტიკი (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fr drogue (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · hu kábítószer (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · tl droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · he סַם (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · gcf dwòg (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · oj mashkiki (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ja 薬物 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hu gyógyszer (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · de Droge (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · uz narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fr drogue (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sq droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · rup droaga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · th ยาเสพติด (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · za doeg (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cs narkotikum (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hy նարկոտիկ (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fi huume (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sh дро́га (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · rup drogã f droghe (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sk droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ky баңгизат (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · km គ្រឿងញៀន (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hi नशा (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sh dróga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · de Arznei (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ur نَشَہ (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hi मादक (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · co droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ml മയക്കുമരുന്ന് (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · el φάρμακο (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ar عَقَّار (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · sw dawa (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ja 医薬品 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ru дурь (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 麻藥 /麻药 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · es droga (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ur مُخَدِّر (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · id narkoba (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fy drug (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mi whakapōauau (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · pl drag (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ru лека́рство (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · da droge (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · lt narkotikas (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sv drog (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ca droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · grc φάρμακον (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · de Rauschgift (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · da stof (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fi huumausaine (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · bg лека́рство (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · et narkootikum (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sq drogë (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · pt droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 藥材 /药材 (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · he סַם (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · es narcótico (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 麻醉 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · it stupefacente (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 麻醉劑 /麻醉剂 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · it droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · pl narkotyk (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · de Rauschmittel (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · be нарко́тык (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ru наркота́ (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sh нарко̀тик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hy թմրամիջոց (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · da narko (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 麻醉品 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · tg мухаддир (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · lv narkotika (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · de Betäubungsmittel (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sq narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · id narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · lo ຢາເສບຕິດ (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ug ناركوتىك (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ca estupefaent (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sv knark (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · tr uyuşturucu (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mk наркотик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · pt narcótico (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · vi ma túy (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sv narkotika (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mn бодис (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · km ថ្នាំញៀន (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ro narcotică (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · bg наркоти́к (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · kk есірткіш (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ne मादक (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · fi lääke (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · nb narkotikum (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · kk наша (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · az narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · uz tinchlantiruvchi (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sa औषध (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · rup droagã (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cmn 毒品 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sv drog (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · yi נאַרקאָטיק (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · kk есірткі (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · de Medikament (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · mi pūroi (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · sa भेषज (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · nl medicijn (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ur مادَک (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · tr narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ota علاج (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · et uimasti (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ca fàrmac (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ja 麻薬 (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · cs droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · nb droge (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · nl drug (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mk дрога (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · mi pōau (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · is fíkniefni (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ja(substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · uk нарко́тик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · es droga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · es fármaco (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · fa-ira مُخَدِّر (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · tg анвои нашъа (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · sw dawa ya kulevya (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ru нарко́тик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · nb rusmiddel (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · eo drogo (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ps مخدر (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · nn droge (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · bn নেশা (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ms narkotik (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · is eiturlyf (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · nl geneesmiddel (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ms dadah (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ky наркотик (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · bg дро́га (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · de Droge (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · mn мансууруулах бодис (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ar مُخَدِّر (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · ga druga (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hu orvosság (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · ga druga (substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine) · nn narkotikum (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one) · hu drog (psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one)

drug en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɾʌɡ/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • /dɹɐɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • [ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɹʊɡ/ (Northern-England)
  • [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdɹʌɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

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 *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Displaced native Old English lybb (“drug, medicine”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) 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.
  2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
    • She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
  3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
    • Past all the doses of your drugging doctors 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  4. (intransitive, rare) To use intoxicating drugs.
    • To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day. 1990 February 4, Cindy Lanane, “With The Confidence Other Women Have Given Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 6:

Forms

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drugging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drugged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drugged Tense=Past lexicographic
drugs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

overdrug · druggability · druggable

Translations (45)

ru нака́чивать (to administer intoxicating drugs) · fr droguer (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es endrogarse (to use intoxicating drugs) · cmn 下藥 /下药 (to administer intoxicating drugs) · cs nasypat drogu (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · he סִמֵּם (to administer intoxicating drugs) · sv droga (to administer intoxicating drugs) · cs zdrogovat (to administer intoxicating drugs) · ru накача́ть pf наркотиками (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es pichicatear (to administer intoxicating drugs) · fi laittaa huumausainetta (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · nl drogeren (to administer intoxicating drugs) · io narkotigar (to administer intoxicating drugs) · el βάζω ναρκωτικό (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · cs přimíchat drogu (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · pt drogar (to administer intoxicating drugs) · pl narkotyzować się (to administer intoxicating drugs) · ro droga (to administer intoxicating drugs) · gl drogar (to administer intoxicating drugs) · bg взимам наркотици (to administer intoxicating drugs) · lt narkošintis (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es drogarse (to use intoxicating drugs) · fi lääkitä (to prescribe or administer medicines) · pl naćpać się (to administer intoxicating drugs) · lt kaifuoti (to administer intoxicating drugs) · el ναρκώνω (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es pichicatearse (to use intoxicating drugs) · fi huumata (to administer intoxicating drugs) · sh drogírati se (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es endrogar (to administer intoxicating drugs) · bg дрогирам се (to administer intoxicating drugs) · es drogar (to administer intoxicating drugs) · cs zdrogovat se (to use intoxicating drugs) · nl drogeren (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · cmn 下毒 (to administer intoxicating drugs) · cs nadrogovat (to administer intoxicating drugs) · cs fetovat (to use intoxicating drugs) · cs nadrogovat (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · lt sėsti ant adatos (to administer intoxicating drugs) · pl ćpać (to administer intoxicating drugs) · pl szprycować (to administer intoxicating drugs) · it drogare (to add intoxicating drugs to something) · pl naszprycować (to administer intoxicating drugs) · lt vartoti narkotikus (to administer intoxicating drugs) · sh дроги́рати се (to administer intoxicating drugs)

drug en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɾʌɡ/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • /dɹɐɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • [ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɹʊɡ/ (Northern-England)
  • [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdɹʌɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Middle English drug, drog, drugh, drogh, from Old English drōg, from Proto-Germanic *drōg; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with dug.

Meanings

  1. (US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of drag
    form of drag
    • look what the cat drug in
    • You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
    • When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him. 2005, Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, →ISBN, page 193:
    • […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron:
    • It's about time you drug it home, Jeff! 2009 August 13, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

drug en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɾʌɡ/ (Scotland, Wales)
  • /dɹɐɡ/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • [ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /dɹʊɡ/ (Northern-England)
  • [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ] (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdɹʌɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A drudge.
    • Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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