English Explanatory Dictionary

drug

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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. 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. Ellipsis of drugstore.
verb
  1. To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
  2. To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
  3. To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
  4. To use intoxicating drugs.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of drag
noun
  1. A drudge.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɹʌɡ/ [ˈdɹ̝ʷʌɡ] [ˈd̠ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ] en-us-drug.ogg En-uk-drug.ogg

Word forms

drug drugs drugging drugged

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”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Synonyms

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

Derived words

antidrug bedrug blockbuster drug club drug codrug combination drug controlled drug counterdrug date rape drug designer drug dissociative drug do drugs drugability drug abuse drug abuser drug addict drug addiction drug-addled drug baron drug bust drugbuster drug cartel drug challenge drug deal drug-dealer drug dealer drug den drug dependence drug dog drug driver drug driving drugeteria drug-fiend drug fiend drugfree drug-free [Term?] drugger druggery druggie druggist druggo druggy drughead drug holiday drug house drug in the market drug joint drug lab drugless druglike drug lord druglord druglore drugmaker drug mule drug-naive drug naive drug-naïve drug naïve

Translations

Arabic: عَقَّار Bulgarian: лека́рство Catalan: fàrmac Chinese Mandarin: 藥 /药 Chinese Mandarin: 藥材 /药材 Chinese Mandarin: 藥物 /药物 Chinese Mandarin: 藥品 /药品 Corsican: druga Danish: droge Dutch: geneesmiddel Dutch: medicijn Finnish: lääke French: drogue German: Arznei German: Droge German: Medikament Greek: φάρμακο Ancient Greek: φάρμακον Hebrew: סַם Hungarian: gyógyszer Hungarian: orvosság Irish: druga Japanese: 薬 Japanese: 医薬品 Japanese: 薬剤 Malay: ubat Malay: dadah Māori: pūroi Norwegian Bokmål: droge Norwegian Bokmål: legemiddel Norwegian Nynorsk: droge Ojibwe: mashkiki Russian: лека́рство Sanskrit: औषध Sanskrit: भेषज Sanskrit: अगद Spanish: droga Spanish: fármaco Swahili: dawa Swahili: dawa ya famasia Swedish: drog Ottoman Turkish: علاج
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