What does the word drug mean?
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1. Any substance employed as a medicine in the treatment of disease. 2. To give medicine, usually with the sense of giving medicine in unnecessarily large quantities. 3. To narcotize.
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( F.) Drogue. A name ordinarily applied to simple medicines, but, by extension, to every substance employed in the cure of disease. Menage derives it from droga, and this from the Persian droa, 'odour;' because many drugs have a strong odour. It is, doubtless, from the Teutonic trocken, Sax. 'to dry.'
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To prescribe or administer drugs. Most commonly, perhaps, to dose to excess with drugs. One who so doses is sometimes called "a drugger." "To drug," also means to tincture with some medicinal article.
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A medicinal substance; a substance introduced into the body to cure disease.
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Usage examples for drug
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That moment, you'll remember, was coloured by the fanciful ideas such a drug would induce. – The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp
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She's out at the corner drug store on the 'phone. – Wilt Thou Torchy by Sewell Ford
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In developing human resources, I will have recommendations to advance the Nation's health and education, to improve conditions of people in need, to carry forward our increasingly successful attacks on crime, drug abuse and injustice, and to deal with such important areas of special concern as consumer affairs. – Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present by Various
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