drug

IPA: drˈʌg

noun

  • (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
  • A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A drudge.
  • (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore. [(chiefly US, Canada) Synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy.]

verb

  • (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
  • (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
  • (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
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Examples of "drug" in Sentences

  • Drug overdose can kill people.
  • The drug therefore prevents both morbidity and transmission.
  • Huxley wrote critically of the effects of drugs of complacency.
  • There is no antiviral drug effective against the canine distemper virus.
  • The effects of new hypnotic drugs in rats trained to discriminate ethanol.
  • He suffered from a paranoid psychosis brought on by the effects of the drugs.
  • Pharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs, pharmacy is their creation.
  • In both trials, the arrhythmic drugs were less effective than the alternative.
  • Both of these drugs have the effect of producing unconsciousness or relaxation.
  • This is an indirect effect of the drug, not strychnine or any other adulterant.

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