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DRUGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drugged mean? 

DRUGGED (adjective)
  The adjective DRUGGED has 1 sense:

1. under the influence of narcoticsplay

  Familiarity information: DRUGGED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DRUGGED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Under the influence of narcotics

Synonyms:

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized

Context example:

in a stuperous narcotized state

Similar:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))


 Context examples 


This afternoon a good lunch was brought me, but the moment after I took it I knew that I had been drugged.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot leave her, and I am alone, save for the sleeping servants, whom some one has drugged.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Drug abuse also plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress, and child abuse.

(Drug Abuse, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

He was equally certain that the same stranger had, while standing at the window, drugged his curried mutton, and so deprived the stables of their watchman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A subtype of delusional disorder characterized by the central delusional theme that the individual is being malevolently treated (for example, maligned, harassed, conspired against, poisoned or drugged) by another person or group.

(Persecutory Type Delusional Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I flew downstairs and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I found on the table.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was drugged with opium.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The police imagine, I take it, that this Fitzroy Simpson, having drugged the lad, and having in some way obtained a duplicate key, opened the stable door and took out the horse, with the intention, apparently, of kidnapping him altogether.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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