Meaning

5 senses

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

    Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

    The revenues from both brand-name drugs and generic drugs have increased.

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

    We took drugs and partied all night.

    They're on drugs.

    Droge, Rauschgift, Rauschmittel

    нарко́тикnarkótik, наркота́narkotá, дурьdurʹ

    нарко́тикnarkótyk

  3. (broadly)Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

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

    Arznei, Droge, Medikament

    лека́рствоlekárstvo

  5. (obsolete)A drudge.

More definitions
  • a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

Examples

1137 sentences

  1. Did you know Tom was dealing drugs?

    Ти знав, що Том розповсюджував наркотики?

    ruТы знал, что Том торговал наркотиками?

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  2. I don't do drugs or alcohol.

    Я не вживаю наркотиків і не п'ю алкоголь.

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  3. Tom doesn't do drugs.

    Том не споживає наркотики.

    ruТом не употребляет наркотики.

    deTom nimmt keine Drogen.

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  4. I don't take drugs.

    Я не приймаю ліки.

    ruЯ не принимаю наркотики.

    deIch nehme keine Drogen.

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  5. I'm not on drugs.

    Я не приймаю ліки.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one:
Русский
By meaning 2
psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one:
substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
psychoactive substance ingested for recreational use, especially illegal and addictive one:
substance used as a medical treatment — see also medicine:

Origin

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, ph

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Displaced native Old English lybb (“drug, medicine”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

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Forms

plural: drugs
Singulardrug
Pluraldrugs

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
conservatoryC1medicationB2medicineA1gearB2horseA1stuffA2substanceB2medicamentpharmaceuticalrecreational drugdopepharmaceutical drug

Word family

105 related words
Relateddruggist
DeriveddrugstoreA2antidrugbedrugblockbuster drugclub drugcodrugcombination drugcontrolled drugcounterdrugdance drugdesigner drugdissociative drugdo drugsdrugabilitydrug abusedrug abuserdrug addictdrug addictiondrug-addleddrug barondrug bustdrugbusterdrug carteldrug challenge

Collocations

12 patterns
  • a drug addict
  • a drug dealer
  • drug dealer
  • drug addict
  • was a drug
  • caught selling drugs
  • selling drugs
  • using drugs
  • doing doing drugs
  • drug store
  • taking drugs
  • doing drugs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
drowningdrowsinessdrowsydrudgeryC2drugstoreA2drumA1drummer
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