Drug

Word DRUG
Character 4
Hyphenation drug
Pronunciations /dɹʌɡ/

Definitions and meanings of "Drug"

What do we mean by drug?

A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication. noun

Such a substance as recognized or defined by the US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. noun

A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction. noun

A chemical or dye. noun

To administer a drug to, especially to treat pain or induce anesthesia. transitive verb

To give a drug to, especially surreptitiously, in order to induce stupor. transitive verb

To poison or mix (food or drink) with a drug. transitive verb

Any vegetable, animal, or mineral substance used in the composition or preparation of medicines; hence, also, any ingredient used in chemical preparations employed in the arts. noun

A thing which has lost its value, and is no longer wanted; specifically, a commodity that is not salable, especially from overproduction: as, a drug in the market (the phrase in which the word is generally used). noun

A drudge. noun

Same as drogue. noun

To mix with drugs; narcotize or make poisonous, as a beverage, by mixture with a drug: as, to drug wine (in order to render the person who drinks it insensible).

To dose to excess with drugs or medicines.

To administer narcotics or poisons to; render insensible with or as with a narcotic or anesthetic drug; deaden: as, he was drugged and then robbed.

To surfeit; disgust.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines, especially to excess.

To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. intransitive verb

To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig. transitive verb

A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Drug

The word "drug" in example sentences

Officials usually avoid even the term "drug cartels," and instead refer to them as "organized crime," perhaps more accurate now that much of the gangs' income comes from extortion and kidnapping. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The term drug-resistant TB, or DR-TB is used to describe those strains of TB which show resistance to one or more of the common first-line drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term drug discovery tools usually refers to high-content screening (HCS) and analysis and is composed of those applications that require sufficient levels of sample throughput, whereby complex cellular events and phenotypes can be studied. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term drug that gets used in this debate is part of the problem because it is meaningless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What about the market for drugs, where the price of the drug is always much higher than the marginal cost? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many panel members said they wanted to see more safety data before voting to approve the drug rather than facing potential questions after the drug is approved. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2010)

If a drug is a bona fide public safety risk (like crystal meth) and some policy is demonstrated to reduce that risk then by all means. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I use this term very broadly, because from a training perspective a drug is a drug is a drug. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In recent years, there have been questions about whether the drug is administered in a way that fully renders an inmate unconscious before other lethal drugs are used to complete an execution. ❋ Vauhini Vara (2010)

If a drug is approved and fails disastrously the FDA is blamed. ❋ David K. Levine (2010)

Avandia's Britain-based maker, GlaxoSmithKline, says it continues to believe the drug is an important treatment for patients with Type 2 diabetes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OpenVolokh: What about the market for drugs, where the price of the drug is always much higher than the marginal cost? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Researchers analyzed how addictive a drug is and how it harms the human body, in addition to other criteria like environmental damage caused by the drug, its role in breaking up families and its economic costs, such as health care, social services, and prison. ❋ AP (2010)

In the cases where mere possession of a drug (say marijuana) as opposed to dealing in a drug is a misdemeanour rather than a felony then things get yet more difficult. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you changed the timeline so that the patent clock starts ticking when the drug is approved or hits the market, the manufacturers would instantly earn another 10-13 years to leverage their successful drugs to finance the numerous failures and future research. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That in turn creates a craving for nicotine when the drug is absent. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Italian police and prosecutors allege that three suspects were involved in what they call a drug fueled sex game. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“This drug is able to target several cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors,” said Scheen. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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