drug
noun
[ drʌɡ ]
• a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
• "a new drug aimed at sufferers from Parkinson's disease"
Similar:
medicine,
medical drug,
medication,
medicament,
remedy,
cure,
antidote,
cure-all,
panacea,
nostrum,
potion,
elixir,
magic bullet,
physic,
drug
verb
• administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility.
• "they were drugged to keep them quiet"
Similar:
anaesthetize,
give an anaesthetic to,
narcotize,
give drugs to,
give narcotics to,
give opiates to,
poison,
knock out,
make/render unconscious,
make/render insensible,
stupefy,
befuddle,
dope,
add drugs to,
tamper with,
adulterate,
contaminate,
spike,
lace,
slip a Mickey Finn into,
doctor,
stupefied,
insensible,
befuddled,
delirious,
hallucinating,
narcotized,
anaesthetized,
knocked out,
comatose,
stoned,
high,
doped,
dopey,
on a trip,
tripping,
spaced out,
zonked,
wasted,
wrecked,
high as a kite,
off one's head,
out of one's mind,
flying,
turned on,
hyped up,
freaked out,
charged up,
loved-up,
turnt,
blitzed,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French drogue, possibly from Middle Dutch droge vate, literally ‘dry vats’, referring to the contents (i.e. dry goods).
on drugs
• taking medically prescribed drugs.
• "on drugs for high blood pressure"
