drug
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were wontedly dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- 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.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (pharmacology) A substance, sometimes addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A chemical or substance, not necessarily for medical purposes, which alters the way the mind or body works.
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, p. 3,
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
- March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
- 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.
- 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605, page 19
- 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.
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, p. 3,
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:pharmaceutical
Derived terms
terms derived from drug (noun)
Translations
substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose — see medicine
substance, sometimes addictive, affecting the central nervous system
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a substance that alters the way the mind or body works
psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one
Verb
drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)
- (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.
- (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
- (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)
Translations
to administer intoxicating drugs
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Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog, Old English drōg.
Verb
drug
- (Southern US) simple past tense and past participle of drag
- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
Usage notes
- Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this word.
References
- drug in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Romanian
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian drug.
Noun
Noun
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *drugъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰos.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /drûːɡ/
Noun
drȗg m (Cyrillic spelling дру̑г)
Declension
declension of drug
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | drȗg | drȕgovi / drȗzi |
| genitive | druga | drugova / druga |
| dative | drugu | drugovima / druzima |
| accusative | druga | drugove / druge |
| vocative | drȗže | drugovi / druzi |
| locative | drugu | drugovima / druzima |
| instrumental | drugom | drugovima / druzima |
Derived terms
Related terms
- drugàrica
- drúga
- drùžica
Synonyms
Slovene
Adjective
drug (not comparable)
Declension
Declension of drug (hard)
| singular | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | drug ind drugi def |
druga | drugo |
| accusative | nominativeinanor genitiveanim | drugo | drugo |
| genitive | drugega | druge | drugega |
| dative | drugemu | drugi | drugemu |
| locative | drugem | drugi | drugem |
| instrumental | drugim | drugo | drugim |
| dual | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | druga | drugi | drugi |
| accusative | druga | drugi | drugi |
| genitive | drugih | drugih | drugih |
| dative | drugima | drugima | drugima |
| locative | drugih | drugih | drugih |
| instrumental | drugima | drugima | drugima |
| plural | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | drugi | druge | druga |
| accusative | druge | druge | druga |
| genitive | drugih | drugih | drugih |
| dative | drugim | drugim | drugim |
| locative | drugih | drugih | drugih |
| instrumental | drugimi | drugimi | drugimi |