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