drug

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/dɹʌɡ/

noun 6verb 4

Collocations

(noun.) substance used as a medicine

ADJ

powerful, strong | modern, new

wonder

Penicillin was considered a wonder drug when doctors first discovered it could cure serious infections.

sedative | anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-malarial, etc.

prescription

My doctor gave me a prescription drug to help control my blood pressure.

QUANT

course, dose

VERB + DRUG

be on, take

My grandfather has been on heart medication and blood pressure drugs for several years now.

prescribe (sb), put sb on

After her surgery, the physician prescribed her painkillers to manage the discomfort.

give sb, treat sb with

administer, give sb

The doctor decided to administer a new drug to help reduce her fever.

develop

Scientists have developed a new drug to treat diabetes more effectively.

be resistant to, not respond to

The patient's cancer did not respond to the drugs doctors prescribed.

DRUG + VERB

cure sth, help sth, treat sth

The new medicine successfully treated her severe headaches within a few days.

DRUG + NOUN

company

PREP

~ against

The new medicine works as an effective drug against malaria in tropical regions.

~ for

My doctor prescribed a new drug for my chronic headaches last month.

(noun.) illegal substance

ADJ

illegal | addictive, hallucinogenic

dangerous, hard

Taking dangerous drugs can seriously damage your health and your future.

soft | designer

VERB + DRUG

inject (See note for more verbs.)

DRUG + NOUN

baron, pusher | cartel | misuse | drug/drugs charges, offence | squad

war

The government launched a major new initiative to win the drug war in our city.

PHRASES

drink and drugs

Many young people struggle with problems related to drink and drugs.

Definitions

noun

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.

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

We took drugs and partied all night.

They're on drugs.

Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

Oh, get that buzz / Love is the drug / I'm thinking of

Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

And virtue shall a drug become.

[…] Sermons are mere Drugs. The Trade is ſo vaſtly ſtocked vvith them, that really unleſs they come out vvith the Name of VVhitfield [i.e, George Whitefield] or VVeſtley [John Wesley], or ſome other ſuch great Man, as a Biſhop, or thoſe ſort of People, I don't care to touch, […]

Ellipsis of drugstore.

“I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

verb

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.

To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

To use intoxicating drugs.

To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.

noun

A drudge.

Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — administer a drug to

dose

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

gateway drug

A typically legal or less harmful substance, such as marijuana, whose use is statistically associated with an increased likelihood of progressing to a more dangerous or illicit drug.

drug on the market

something which is overabundant at the moment and thus not in demand.

for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of em

Example Bank

Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

Wiktionary

The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.

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whence merchants bring their spicy drugs

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She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.

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She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.

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Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, drug is marked as informal, obsolete, US, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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