drug Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
  2. verb administer a drug to
    dose.
    • They drugged the kidnapped tourist
  3. verb use recreational drugs
    do drugs.

WordNet

Drug intransitive verb
Etymology
See 1st Drudge.
Definitions
  1. To drudge; to toil laboriously. Obs. "To drugge and draw." Chaucer.
Drug noun
Definitions
  1. A drudge (?). Shak. (Timon iv. 3, 253).
Drug noun
Etymology
F. drogue, prob. fr. D. droog; akin to E. dry; thus orig., dry substance, hers, plants, or wares. See Dry.
Definitions
  1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines; any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
    Whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs. Milton.
  2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding.
    And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.
Drug intransitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. droguer.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Drugged ; present participle & verbal noun Drugging
Definitions
  1. To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. B. Jonson.
Drug transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
    The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. C. Kingsley.
    Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. Tennyson.
  2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
    Drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. Milton.
  3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
    With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron.

Webster 1913