DRUG

Downloaded: March 14, 2025, 4:18 PM

pluraldrugs

:a substance used as a medication or in the preparation of medication

b according to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(1)

:a substance recognized in an official pharmacopoeia or formulary (see formulary sense 3)

(2)

:a substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease

prescription drugs

drugs for treating high blood pressure

(3)

:a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body

(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

:something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation (see habituation sense 2b), or a marked change in consciousness

keeping teens off drugs

heroin and other hard drugs

:a commodity that is not salable or for which there is no demand (see demand entry 1 sense 3a)

—used in the phrase drug on the market

obsolete :a substance used in dyeing or chemical operations

drug

2 of 3

drugged; drugging; drugs

:to affect (a person or animal) with a drug (see drug entry 1)

especially :to stupefy (someone) by an intoxicating drug

looks like he's been drugged

:to administer a drug to (a person or animal)

drugged against pain

:to lull or stupefy (someone) as if with a drug

… the kind of overly familiar music that delights most audiences and drugs most critics—Time

:to add an illicit or intoxicating drug to (food or drink) usually surreptitiously

There's also very little violence in the movie. … The kidnapping is done by drugging the victim's drink.—Drew Zahn

:to take drugs especially for the intoxicating effect