drug
verb/drʌɡ/
/drʌɡ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they drug | /drʌɡ/ /drʌɡ/ |
| he / she / it drugs | /drʌɡz/ /drʌɡz/ |
| past simple drugged | /drʌɡd/ /drʌɡd/ |
| past participle drugged | /drʌɡd/ /drʌɡd/ |
| -ing form drugging | /ˈdrʌɡɪŋ/ /ˈdrʌɡɪŋ/ |
- drug somebody/something to give a person or an animal a drug, especially to make them unconscious, or to affect their performance in a race or competition
- He was drugged and bundled into the back of the car.
- It's illegal to drug horses before a race.
- The Civil Liberties group campaigns against forced drugging of prisoners.
- He was asleep, heavily drugged with tranquillizers.
- drug something to add a drug to somebody’s food or drink to make them unconscious or sleepy
- Her drink must have been drugged.
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French drogue, possibly from Middle Dutch droge vate, literally ‘dry vats’, referring to the contents (i.e. dry goods).
Idioms
See drug in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe drugged up to the eyeballs
- (informal) to have taken or been given a lot of drugs
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