drug

1. 1.

   a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic

   Broaderagent

   Narrowerabortifacientagonistanestheticantagonistantisyphiliticanti-TNF compoundbotanicalbrand-name drugcontrolled substancedilator

   Part ofpharmacopoeia

Other forms of drug

plural

drugs·

past tense or participle

drugged

present participle

drugging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drug

What does drug mean?

drug means "administer a drug to". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drug?

drug has 1 syllable: drug. In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌɡ/.

What is another word for drug?

Close synonyms include dose, do drugs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug a common word?

drug is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.