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drug I. \ˈdrəg\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English drogge, perhaps from Middle Dutch drōge (vat) dry barrel — more at dry 1. a. obsolete : something used in dyeing or chemical operations b. : a substance used as a medicine or in making medicines for internal or external use c. according to the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act (1) : a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (2) : a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animal (3) : a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body of man or other animal (4) : a substance intended for use as a component of a medicine but not a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device 2. : a commodity that lies on hand or is not salable : something for which there is little or no demand — now used only in the phrase drug on the market or drug in the market 3. a. : a narcotic substance or preparation < drug addict > < drug user > b. : something that is narcotic in its effect < power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with habit — Bertrand Russell > < with his drug of study, in his closed-in, precarious world — Edmund Wilson > 4. drugs plural : stocks or bonds of drug companies II. verb (drugged ; drugged ; drugging ; drugs) transitive verb 1. : to poison with or as if with a drug < the very air was drugged with the long-festering animosity — L.C.Douglas > 2. : to administer a drug to < his wife, drugged against pain — Victor Canning > 3. : to lull or stupefy as if with a drug < the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics — Time > < her mind was still drugged by the stupor of exhaustion — Ellen Glasgow > < the strong aromatic sunlight drugged him into cheerfulness — John Buchan > intransitive verb : to take drugs for narcotic effect < he neither drinks nor drugs > < it wouldn't surprise me if they drugged! They've got a very queer look in their eyes — Osbert Sitwell > III. \“, ˈdru̇g\ transitive verb (drugged ; drugged ; drugging ; drugs) Etymology: probably by alteration dialect Britain : drag IV. \ˈdrəg\ noun (-s) : a low heavy horse-drawn truck used especially in moving timber V. dialect past of drag |