Rapt vs Drugged - What's the difference?
rapt | drugged |
(uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
* Chapman
* Sir H. Wotton
(uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
(comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
* 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008,
* 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011,
* 1908 ,
* 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace ,
(comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
* Addison
* 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series ,
* 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US,
* 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye ,
* 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand),
(obsolete) To transport or ravish.
(obsolete) To carry away by force.
(obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
(obsolete) rapidity
(drug)
(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
* Milton
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:
* March 1991 , unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN ,
* 2005 , Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs , Chronic Discontent Books, ISBN 0976705605,
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:
* 2009 , Niki Flynn, Dances with Werewolves , page 8:
* 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:
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
* Fielding
* Dryden
To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
(drag)
* 2005 , Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers (ISBN 1603580417), page 193:
(obsolete) A drudge.
* William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
As verbs the difference between rapt and drugged
is that rapt is (obsolete) to transport or ravish while drugged is (drug).As an adjective rapt
is (uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.As a noun rapt
is (obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.rapt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
- From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
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- It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
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- Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.
- The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
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- He was rapt with his exam results.
- I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
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- Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
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- Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
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- One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .
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- These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Drayton)
- (Daniel)
Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Morton)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Anagrams
* part, prat, tarp, trap ----drugged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*drug
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- whence merchants bring their spicy drugs
- We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- But sermons are mere drugs .
- And virtue shall a drug become.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreationalSynonyms
* See alsoDerived 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 * wonderdrugVerb
(drugg)- She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged .
- She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged .
- (Ben Jonson)
Etymology 2
Germanic ablaut formation, cognate with (etyl) droeg, (etyl) trug, (etyl) drog, (etyl) .Verb
(head)- You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
- 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)- 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