drug
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drug/drʌɡ/
▶noun a medicine or other substance which has a marked physiological effect when taken into the body.
■ a substance with narcotic or stimulant effects.
▶verb (drugs, drugging, drugged) administer a drug to, in order to induce stupor or insensibility.– origin ME: from OFr. drogue, perh. from MDu. droge vate, lit. ‘dry vats’, referring to the contents.
'drug' also found in these Oxford entries:
abortifacient
- acid
- acyclovir
- administer
- allopurinol
- alprazolam
- amitriptyline
- amphetamine
- Amytal
- analeptic
- analgesic
- anaphrodisiac
- angel dust
- anodyne
- anovulant
- anticholinergic
- anticonvulsant
- antidepressant
- anti-emetic
- antihistamine
- anti-infective
- anti-inflammatory
- antimalarial
- antipruritic
- antipsychotic
- antipyretic
- antiretroviral
- antiscorbutic
- antispasmodic
- antiviral
- anxiolytic
- aperient
- aphrodisiac
- ARV
- atropine
- azidothymidine
- barbitone
- belladonna
- bioavailability
- biotransformation
- bolus
- Botox
- bronchodilator
- buchu
- calmative
- cannabis
- carbamazepine
- carminative
- chemical
- chlorambucil
