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Drug Drugged People Substances Pleasant Effects Illegal Chemical

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D____ are substances that some people take because of their pleasant effects, but which are usually illegal .Drugs are substances that some people take because of their pleasant effects, but which are usually illegal .
His mother was on drugs, on cocaine.
She was sure Leo was taking drugs.
...the problem of drug abuse.
word drug
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noun
A drug is a chemical which is given to people in order to treat or prevent an illness or disease.
The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
...the drug companies.
Drugs are substances that some people take because of their pleasant effects, but which are usually illegal .
His mother was on drugs, on cocaine.
She was sure Leo was taking drugs.
...the problem of drug abuse.
verb
If you drug a person or animal, you give them a chemical substance in order to make them sleepy or unconscious .
They drugged the guard dog with doped meatballs.
She was drugged and robbed.
He grew tired, and drifted off into a drugged sleep.
If food or drink is drugged, a chemical substance is added to it in order to make someone sleepy or unconscious when they eat or drink it.
I wonder now if that drink had been drugged.
Anyone could have drugged that wine.
A tourist was robbed after being given a drugged orange.
inflections drugsdruggingdrugged
cefr-level A2

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