How do you use the word "drug" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "drug" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "drug": Don't do that!!! There's a computer at the drug store. The new drug will be tested in Vaxgen's laboratory.

Drug Meaning

/ˈdɹʌɡ/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

nounA psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

Sentence Examples

Don't do that!!! There's a computer at the drug store.

The new drug will be tested in Vaxgen's laboratory.

She denies possessing the drug with intent to supply.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

dose

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor prescribed a new ____ to treat his persistent cough.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Don't do that!!! There's a computer at the ____ store.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), 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 drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"whence merchants bring their spicy drugs" — 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

"In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain." — 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN:

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." — 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 3:

"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." — 1991 March 26, unknown student, “Antihero opinion”, in SPIN, page 70:

"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." — 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, →ISBN, page 19:

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