drug /ˈdrʌg/
藥物,藥材;麻醉藥品,成癮性毒品(vt.)使服麻醉藥,使麻醉;使沈醉
drug /ˈdrəg/ 名詞
藥物
Drug, n.
1. Any animal, vegetable, or mineral substance used in the composition of medicines.
Whence merchants bring
Their spicy drugs.
2. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand; -- used often in the phrase “a drug on the market”. “But sermons are mere drugs.”
And virtue shall a drug become. --Dryden.
3. any stuff used in dyeing or in chemical operations.
Drug v. i. To drudge; to toil laboriously. [Obs.] “To drugge and draw.”
Drug, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drugged p. pr. & vb. n. Drugging.] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
Drug, v. t.
1. To affect or season with drugs or ingredients; esp., to stupefy by a narcotic drug. Also Fig.
The laboring masses . . . [were] drugged into brutish good humor by a vast system of public spectacles. --C. Kingsley.
Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it. --Tennyson.
2. To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Drugged as oft,
With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws. --Milton.
3. To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs.
With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. --Byron.
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drug
n : a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
v 1: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[syn: dose]
2: use recreational drugs [syn: do drugs]
[also: drugging, drugged]