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stoned adjective [ stəʊnd ]

• under the influence of drugs, especially cannabis.

stoned adjective

• (of a fruit) having had the stone removed.
• "add 50 g of stoned black olives"

stone verb

• throw stones at.
• "three vehicles were stoned and torched"
• remove the stone from (a fruit).
• build, face, or pave with stone.
• "the honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city"
Origin: Old English stān (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch steen and German Stein . The verb dates from Middle English (first recorded in stone (sense 1 of the verb)).


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