drugged

drug  (drg)

n.

1.

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

b. Such a substance as recognized or defined by the U.S. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

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

3. Obsolete A chemical or dye.

tr.v. drugged, drug·ging, drugs

1. To administer a drug to.

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

3. To stupefy or dull with or as if with a drug: drugged with sleep.

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[Middle English drogge, from Old French drogue, drug, perhaps from Middle Dutch droge (vate), dry (cases), pl. of drog, dry.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

drugged - under the influence of narcotics; "knocked out by doped wine"; "a drugged sleep"; "were under the effect of the drugged sweets"; "in a stuperous narcotized state" narcotised, narcotized, doped drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

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drugged

adjective stoned, high (informal), flying (slang), bombed (slang), tripping (informal) (slang), wasted (slang), smashed (slang), wrecked (slang), turned on (slang), out of it (slang), doped (slang), under the influence (informal), on a trip (informal), spaced out (slang), comatose, stupefied, out of your mind (slang), off your face (slang), loved-up (informal), zonked (slang), out to it (Austral. & N.Z. slang) drugged up to the eyeballs.

Translations

drugged

adj food, drink → mit einem Betäubungsmittel versetzt; to be drugged (person) → unter Beruhigungsmitteln stehen; he seemed drugged → er schien wie betäubt; her whisky was drugged → in ihrem Whisky waren K.O.-Tropfen; he awoke from a long drugged sleep → er erwachte aus einer langen, tiefen Betäubung; drugged with sleep → schlaftrunken; drugged with fatigue → vor Müdigkeit ganz benommen