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drugged | dragged |

As verbs the difference between drugged and dragged

is that drugged is (drug) while dragged is (drag).

drugged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (drug)

    • Anagrams

    *

    drug

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
    • Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.
    The revenues from both brand-name drugs''' and generic '''drugs have increased.
  • * Milton
    • whence merchants bring their spicy drugs
  • A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.
  • * 1971 , , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial 2005 edition, page 3:
    • We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
  • * March 1991 , unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN , page 70:
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs , Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605, page 19:
    • 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.
  • Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted.
  • * 2005 , Jack Haas, Om, Baby! : a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self , page 8:
    • Inspiration is my drug'. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the ' drug of inspiration for which I have had great need
  • * 2009 , Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves , page 8:
    • Fear was my drug of choice. I thrived on scary movies, ghost stories and rollercoasters. I dreamed of playing the last girl left alive in a slasher film — the one who screams herself hoarse as she discovers her friends' bodies one by one.
  • * 2010', Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), ''Your Love Is My '''Drug
  • * 2011 , Joslyn Shy, Introducing the Truth , page 5:
    • The truth is...eating is my drug . When I am upset, I eat...when I am sad, I eat...when I am happy, I eat.
  • Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
  • * Fielding
    • But sermons are mere drugs .
  • * Dryden
    • And virtue shall a drug become.
    Usage notes
    * Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * antidrug * blockbuster drug * club drug * counterdrug * date rape drug * designer drug * disease modifying drug * dissociative drug * do drugs * drug abuse * drug addict * drug baron * drug dealer * drug dog * drug of choice * drug on the market * drug test * drug-ridden * drugfree * druggist * druggie * drugless * druglord * drugstore * drugtaker * drugtaking * druggy * fertility drug * gateway drug * love drug * multidrug * nondrug * on drugs * orphan drug * polydrug * postdrug * prescription drug * prodrug * recreational drug * small molecule drug * street drug * wonderdrug

    Verb

    (drugg)
  • To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
    • She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged .
  • To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
    • She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged .
  • To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Etymology 2

    Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with (etyl) droeg, (etyl) trug, (etyl) drog, (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drag)
    • You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
  • * 2005 , Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers (ISBN 1603580417), page 193:
    • When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him.
    Usage notes
    * Random House says that and Oxford make no mention of this word.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A drudge.
  • * William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
    • Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot

    References

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms English transitive verbs ----

    dragged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drag)

    • Synonyms

    * drug

    drag

    English

    (wikipedia drag)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
  • To move slowly.
  • To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= James R. Carter
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Flowers and Ribbons of Ice , passage=Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.}}
  • To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
  • * Byron
    • The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
  • * Gay
    • Long, open panegyric drags at best.
  • To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
  • * Dryden
    • have dragged a lingering life
  • To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
  • * Russell
    • A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
  • (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
  • To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
  • To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
  • (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
  • * November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
    • Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
  • To fish with a dragnet.
  • To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
  • (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
  • * Tennyson
    • while I dragged my brains for such a song
    Derived terms
    * drag one's feet * dragline * what the cat dragged in
    Related terms
    * dragnet

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
    • When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
  • (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
  • (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
  • (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
  • (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
    • Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag .
  • * J. D. Forbes
    • My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag .
  • (countable, slang) Someone or something that is disappointing.
  • (countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
    • (Thackeray)
  • (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
  • (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
    • to run a drag
  • (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
  • A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
  • A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
    • a stone drag
  • (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
  • (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
  • (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
  • Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
  • A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
  • Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
  • * Hazlitt
    • Had a drag in his walk.
    Derived terms
    * drag race * main drag

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) Douglas Harper, "camp (n.)" in Online Etymology Dictionary , 2001ff

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
    • He performed in drag .
  • (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
    • corporate drag
    Derived terms
    * drag king * drag queen * drag show

    References

    * Flight, 1913, p. 126] attributing to [[w:Archibald Low, Archibald Low] *

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ----