'Drug' definitions:

Definition of 'drug'

From: WordNet
noun
A substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
verb
Administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose]
verb
Use recreational drugs [syn: drug, do drugs]

Definition of 'Drug'

From: GCIDE
  • Drug \Drug\ (dr[u^]g), v. i. [See 1st Drudge.] To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] "To drugge and draw." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Drug'

From: GCIDE
  • Drug \Drug\, n. A drudge (?). --Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253). [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Drug'

From: GCIDE
  • Drug \Drug\, n. [F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.]
  • 1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines. [1913 Webster]
  • Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; -- used often in the phrase "a drug on the market". "But sermons are mere drugs." --Fielding. [1913 Webster]
  • And virtue shall a drug become. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. any substance intended for use in the treatment, prevention, diagnosis, or cure of disease, especially one listed in the official pharmacopoeia published by a national authority. [PJC]
  • 5. any substance having psychological effects, such as a narcotic, stimulant, or hallucinogenic agent, especially habit-forming and addictive substances, sold or used illegally; as, a drug habit; a drug treatment program; a teenager into drugs; a drug bust; addicted to drugs; high on drugs.
  • Syn: illegal drug. [PJC]
  • They [smaller and poorer nations] have lined up to recount how drug trafficking and consumption have corrupted their struggling economies and societies and why they are hard pressed to stop it. -- Christopher S. Wren (N Y. Times, June
  • 10, 1998, p. A5) [PJC]

Definition of 'Drug'

From: GCIDE
  • Drug \Drug\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] [Cf. F. droguer.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Drug'

From: GCIDE
  • Drug \Drug\, v. t.
  • 1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig. [1913 Webster]
  • The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
  • Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious. [1913 Webster]
  • Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. [1913 Webster]
  • With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. --Byron. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'drug'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Drug'