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drug
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d???/, [d????????]
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), 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 dr?ghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch dr?gi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
- (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pharmaceutical
- A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recreational drug
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, page 3:
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
- March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70
- You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.
- 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, ?ISBN, page 19
- The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.
- Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
- 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8
- Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]
- 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
- 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8
- Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius
- And virtue shall a drug become.
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- But sermons are mere drugs.
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius
- (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)
- (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- Past all the doses of your drugging doctors
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Translations
Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Proto-Germanic *dr?g; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.
Verb
drug
- (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag
- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
- 1961 Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron
- […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
Usage notes
- Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this sense.
Etymology 3
Noun
drug (plural drugs)
- (obsolete) A drudge.
Romanian
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian drug.
Noun
drug m (plural drugi)
- pole, stick
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *drug?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás, from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewg?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drû??/
Noun
dr?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) friend
- (dated) comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)
Declension
Synonyms
- prijatelj
- drugar
- frend (slang, Croatia)
Derived terms
Related terms
- drugàrica
- drúga
- drùžica
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /drú?k/
Adjective
dr?g (not comparable)
- other, another, different
Inflection
See also
- drúgi
Further reading
- “drug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- dru
- dröuw
- dryg
Etymology
From Old Norse drjúgr, from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz.
Adjective
drug (comparative drugänä, superlative drugest)
- lasting
- haughty
Related terms
- dryj
- drögt
- drögnä
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sedate
English
Etymology
From Latin sedatus, past participle of sedare (“to settle”), causative of sedere (“to sit”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??de?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /s??de?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Adjective
sedate (comparative more sedate, superlative most sedate)
- (of a person or their behaviour) Remaining composed and dignified, and avoiding too much activity or excitement.
- Synonyms: placid, staid, unruffled
- 1642, Richard Watson, A Sermon Touching Schisme, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, p. 27,[1]
- […] they will rashly huddle up all together, and not admitting the least check of a sedate judgement, publish onely the impetuous dictates of their indiscreet and too precipitant fancie […]
- 1715, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad: of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Book 3, p. 5, lines 87-88,[2]
- But who like thee can boast a Soul sedate,
- So firmly Proof to all the Shocks of Fate?
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 16,[3]
- A reel or fling of some sort was in progress; and the usually sedate Farfrae was in the midst of the other dancers in the costume of a wild Highlander, flinging himself about and spinning to the tune.
- 1989, Hilary Mantel, Fludd, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, Chapter 9, p. 149,[4]
- Then she saw that they were waving their handkerchiefs; dipping them up and down, with a curiously sedate, formal motion.
- (of an object, particularly a building) Not overly ornate or showy.
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 6, p. 194,[5]
- Sometimes she passed down avenues of sedate mansions, soberly numbered ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, and so on right up to two or three hundred, each the copy of the other, with two pillars and six steps and a pair of curtains neatly drawn […]
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York: Macmillan, 1964, Part 4, Chapter 37,[6]
- The shiny carriages of Yankee officers’ wives and newly rich Carpetbaggers splashed mud on the dilapidated buggies of the townspeople, and gaudy new homes of wealthy strangers crowded in among the sedate dwellings of older citizens.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, “Grown Up,” pp. 164-165,[7]
- Facing the Parliament Buildings across James’ Bay arose a sedate stone and cement Post Office.
- 1985, Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist, London: Jonathan Cape, p. 352[8]
- The great hotel, with its look of sedate luxury, brooded massively there with people teeming about it.
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Penguin, 1942, Chapter 6, p. 194,[5]
Derived terms
- sedately
- sedateness
Translations
Verb
sedate (third-person singular simple present sedates, present participle sedating, simple past and past participle sedated)
- To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug.
- Synonym: tranquilize
- 1990, J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron, New York: Random House, Chapter 2, p. 80,[9]
- Though he may have been sedated, he knew I was there, knew who I was, knew I was talking to him.
- To make tranquil.
- Synonyms: calm, soothe, tranquilize
Related terms
- resedate
- sedation
- sedative
Translations
Further reading
- sedate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sedate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sedate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- e-dates, seated, steade, teades, teased
Italian
Verb
sedate
- second-person plural present indicative of sedare
- second-person plural imperative of sedare
- feminine plural of sedato
Latin
Verb
s?d?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of s?d?
References
- sedate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sedate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sedate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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