transcription, транскрипция: [ drʌg ]
( drugs, drugging, drugged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A drug is a chemical which is given to people in order to treat or prevent an illness or disease.
The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
...the drug companies.
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2.
Drugs are substances that some people take because of their pleasant effects, but which are usually illegal.
His mother was on drugs, on cocaine...
She was sure Leo was taking drugs...
...the problem of drug abuse.
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3.
If you drug a person or animal, you give them a chemical substance in order to make them sleepy or unconscious.
She was drugged and robbed.
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4.
If food or drink is drugged , a chemical substance is added to it in order to make someone sleepy or unconscious when they eat or drink it.
I wonder now if that drink had been drugged...
Anyone could have drugged that wine.
VERB : be V-ed , V n