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medication, put under influence of medication
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put under influence of medication
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put under influence of medication
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put under influence of medication
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put under influence of medication
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- cure
- medicine
- narcotic
- pharmaceutical
- pill
- poison
- prescription
- remedy
- stimulant
- depressant
- dope
- essence
- medicament
- opiate
- pharmaceutic
- physic
- potion
- sedative
- tonic
- biologic
- medicinal
- medicate
- dope
- poison
- sedate
- benumb
- hit
- numb
- relax
- fix
- stupefy
- dose
- desensitize
- treat
- narcotize
- deaden
- blunt
- knock out
- anesthetize
- analgize
- dope up
- dose up
On this page you’ll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drugs, such as: pharmaceutical, prescription, poison, narcotic, remedy, and cure.
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From the Bay Area to Portland to Austin to Clearwater, Florida, and beyond, drug companies are actively recruiting participants.
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List of paraphrases for «drugs»:
drug, medicines, medications, medication, narcotics, medicine, meds, pharmaceuticals, drogas, drogues, medicaments, medicinal, substances, narcotic, pharmaceutical, drug-, substance
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Samuel Misoi:
In prisons, the patients could not run away, and they had no other option but to take their drugs as prescribed under supervision.
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Ryan Pack:
You don’t have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don’t have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.
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Andrew Bates:
We appreciate this expression of bipartisan support for our evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, which is now one of the most large-scale and effective airlift operations in history and has gotten over 75,000 people out of the country, the American people know well that the federal government is responsible for many priorities at once. And The American people never expect The American people leaders to ignore crucial issues like, in this case, creating jobs, rebuilding our infrastructure and bringing down prices — including the cost of prescription drugs.
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Sheriff Hathaway:
I grew up in this town, I was born here, I went to the public schools and it’s a very peaceful town, very peaceful county. Our crime rates here are lower than the average for Tucson, a big change we’re seeing is that 90% of the mules, the ones that are bringing the drugs into the U.S., are U.S. citizens.
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Joe Habachy:
Nick Gordon worked hard to hold Nick Gordon head up and stay sober and… Nick Gordon genuinely wanted a happy healthy life with Nick Gordon family more than anything else, my heart goes out to the family and friends Nick Gordon leaves behind and to any other families dealing with the losses and heartache caused by drugs.
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Pronunciation:
[ dɹˈʌɡz], [ dɹˈʌɡz], [ d_ɹ_ˈʌ_ɡ_z]
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adj.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- drugged.
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n.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- physical health,
- dope.
• remedies (noun)
- Emetics,
- Medicines,
- balms,
- Prescriptions,
- corrections,
- germicides,
- tonics,
- pills,
- pharmaceuticals,
- correctives,
- Salves,
- potions,
- medications,
- Ointments,
- therapies,
- antidotes,
- doses,
- aids,
- lotions,
- Remedies,
- cures,
- elixirs.
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v.
• numbs (verb)
- narcotizes,
- dazes,
- desensitizes,
- dulls,
- stupefies,
- anesthetizes,
- numbs,
- deadens.
• Other relevant words: (verb)
- drug,
- drink.
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- crapulence,
- tank up,
- plastered,
- looped,
- stewed,
- tipsiness,
- potted,
- soberness,
- inebriation,
- medicate,
- narcotize,
- wiped out,
- pickled,
- tipple,
- boozehound,
- hopped-up,
- besot,
- besotted,
- bombed,
- pharmaceutical,
- patent medicine,
- boozy,
- tippler,
- crocked,
- bender,
- sloshed,
- stinko,
- brannigan,
- Boozed,
- crapulous,
- soused,
- crapulent,
- doped,
- teetotalism,
- zonked,
- boozer,
- rummy.
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- carousal,
- narcotic,
- sot,
- abstinence,
- inebriety,
- inebriated,
- stinking,
- stoned,
- hallucinogen,
- binge,
- carouse,
- pixilated,
- spaced-out,
- drunkard,
- Insobriety,
- booze,
- smashed,
- dose,
- inebriate,
- turned on,
- tipsy,
- intoxication,
- drunkenness,
- lit.
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- jag,
- intoxicated,
- imbibe,
- sodden,
- temperance,
- fuddle,
- medication,
- sobriety,
- medicament,
- opiate,
- spree,
- cockeyed,
- befuddle.
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- medicine,
- sponge,
- guzzle,
- dryness.
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- punch,
- souse,
- loaded.
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- soak.
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- blind.
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- high.
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- tight.
• Other relevant words:
- scissure,
- foul,
- alcohol addiction,
- surcharge,
- acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
- sexually transmitted disease,
- dipsomaniac,
- ill-scented,
- teetotaling,
- fling,
- ingurgitate,
- do drugs,
- bibulous,
- swallow,
- take in,
- stringent,
- soakage,
- lush,
- hit it up,
- steamy,
- breaking ball,
- black,
- ludicrous,
- first-rate,
- snap,
- cracking,
- booze-up,
- scarf out,
- salute,
- lighted,
- cupid’s disease,
- gormandize,
- parazoan,
- poached,
- tickle pink,
- illuminated,
- drenching,
- black-market,
- senior high school,
- dispassion,
- prankish,
- mellow,
- bootleg,
- abstention,
- toot,
- venereal infection,
- discussion,
- high-pitched,
- cleft,
- dim,
- social disease,
- ripped,
- low-down,
- alcoholic,
- narcotising,
- intervention,
- tope,
- funny,
- narcotise,
- dot,
- shot,
- foul-smelling,
- sozzled,
- douse,
- excitant,
- aroused,
- crock up,
- fissure,
- pawn,
- high gear,
- welter,
- moderation,
- potty,
- mingy,
- glut,
- puckish,
- exhilarate,
- slicked,
- pledge,
- smother,
- flush,
- blind drunk,
- plume,
- sottish,
- check,
- hock,
- dummy,
- funky,
- crevice,
- sponger,
- mean,
- impish,
- shitty,
- dispassionateness,
- ace,
- well-lighted,
- exalt,
- smuggled,
- gravity,
- odd,
- crack up,
- cocain,
- topnotch,
- medical specialty,
- substantial,
- suck up,
- liquor,
- gourmandize,
- riot,
- draught,
- gage,
- boiled,
- sess,
- department of corrections,
- wicked,
- bust,
- richly,
- stimulation,
- leech,
- superman,
- drunken,
- toxic condition,
- screen,
- satiate,
- lick,
- overindulge,
- bedevil,
- dumbbell,
- overcharge,
- stiff,
- potation,
- discombobulate,
- curve,
- draft,
- locoweed,
- noisome,
- overeat,
- intoxicate,
- practice of medicine,
- randy,
- poop,
- skew-whiff,
- soaked,
- derisory,
- chap,
- poisoning,
- luxuriously,
- quip,
- plunge,
- perforate,
- venereal disease,
- affluent,
- handling,
- taut,
- impoverished,
- smelly,
- grass,
- fuddled,
- highschool,
- pluck,
- parasite,
- narcotized,
- gazump,
- alcoholism,
- break through,
- annihilated,
- cola,
- somberness,
- acid,
- gone,
- physical science,
- unsighted,
- curious,
- poriferan,
- drinking,
- dowse,
- strong drink,
- back breaker,
- tiptop,
- high school,
- wonky,
- pass,
- blotto,
- window pane,
- unreasoning,
- sombreness,
- hook,
- tear,
- super,
- bib,
- checkers,
- zen,
- dunk,
- ridiculous,
- lousy,
- dosage,
- confuse,
- cranny,
- closely,
- curve ball,
- soaking,
- mischievous,
- clutter,
- narcotizing,
- orgy,
- fracture,
- pie-eyed,
- engorge,
- skunk,
- beverage,
- narcotised,
- rigorous,
- waterlessness,
- beatify,
- gamey,
- whirl,
- askew,
- nasty,
- subterfuge,
- dip,
- sealed,
- sally,
- heights,
- pig out,
- graveness,
- slug,
- a-one,
- loony toons,
- wisecrack,
- englut,
- rob,
- vd,
- deglutition,
- tops,
- cadge,
- hard liquor,
- tiddly,
- fast,
- psychedelic drug,
- gormandise,
- battery-acid,
- roister,
- collapse,
- xerotes,
- pinhead,
- plug,
- drinkable,
- soak up,
- pissed,
- smoke,
- stinky,
- soporiferous,
- singular,
- wealthy,
- poke,
- alky,
- take up,
- horny,
- spirits,
- soporific,
- stupefy,
- stimulus,
- ruttish,
- green goddess,
- quick study,
- boozing,
- discourse,
- jumble,
- top-notch,
- close,
- hit the bottle,
- cupid’s itch,
- wassail,
- foetid,
- queer,
- natural philosophy,
- pot,
- tornado,
- throw,
- peculiar,
- input,
- compressed,
- bout,
- ladened,
- hard drink,
- absurd,
- rum,
- confound,
- icky,
- lopsided,
- clout,
- splurge,
- gamy,
- absorb,
- music,
- high up,
- dag,
- weed,
- the skinny,
- senior high,
- biff,
- rotten,
- break,
- fetid,
- miserly,
- fleece,
- idiotic,
- gorge,
- arch,
- draw,
- awry,
- drink in,
- drunk,
- thrill,
- soaker,
- imbue,
- suck,
- break up,
- booby,
- slopped,
- bum,
- assimilate,
- sop up,
- nonsensical,
- crappy,
- spacey,
- medicinal drug,
- social drinker,
- pharmaceutic,
- broken,
- overgorge,
- in high spirits,
- laughable,
- mare’s nest,
- dope up,
- stuff,
- fox,
- literature,
- stimulating,
- boob,
- offer,
- go,
- implike,
- puncher,
- sens,
- preposterous,
- sousing,
- toast,
- hallucinogenic drug,
- spacy,
- wet,
- soppy,
- exterminated,
- stimulant drug,
- sop,
- grub,
- mooch,
- potable,
- gap,
- squiffy,
- drench,
- muddle,
- eminent,
- laden,
- pane,
- moneyed.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- stimulant,
- Narcotics,
- crack,
- ingests,
- mesmerizes,
- draughts,
- intoxicates,
- Drugger,
- sedates,
- contraband,
- physics,
- chaffs,
- Diuretics,
- medicaments,
- chemicals,
- Abortifacients,
- stolen goods,
- adulterates,
- anaesthetics,
- treatment,
- preparations,
- Opiates,
- hypnotizes,
- dopes,
- Sedatives,
- cocaine,
- agents,
- stimulants,
- Poisons,
- treatments.
How to use «Drugs» in context?
Drugs are substances or compounds that can be used to alter or control the body’s mood, cognition, or physical state. Some are considered prescription medications, while others, including marijuana and psychedelics, are classified as illicit drugs. Drug use can have serious health consequences, and has been linked with a number of negative social and economic trends.
Paraphrases for Drugs:
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, plural
substances.
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Proper noun, singular
substance, substances.
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Noun, plural
substances, treatments.
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Proper noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, plural
Medicines.
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Proper noun, singular
medication, medicine, Medicines, pills.
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Noun, plural
Medicines, pills, steroids, painkillers, stimulants, drugmakers.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
Medicines.
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Proper noun, plural
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Independent
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Adjective
drug-free.
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Proper noun, plural
costs, devices, Labeling, Les, Ods, Territories, Foods, Regulations, Risks, states, pharmaceuticals, uses, nations, drogues, chemicals, outputs, produits.
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Proper noun, singular
clinical, cox-2, government, organization, public, revenue, supplies, treated, unit, Trafficking, pharmaceuticals, items, revenues, NCR, disinfectants, outputs, produits, unitaid.
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Noun, plural
aids, cent, cosmetics, costs, data, fries, funds, means, names, needs, people, prevention, regional, roads, services, supplies, therapeutics, veterinary, wages, years, Activities, Lights, Ods, Ones, Paths, Policies, Remedies, Salaries, Tests, Trafficking, Countries, Properties, Specialities, Antibiotics, Antivirals, Charges, Crimes, Diseases, Foods, Guidelines, Immunosuppressants, Measures, Mutations, Patients, Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Physicians, Poisons, Prices, Programs, Resources, Sedatives, Standards, Tablets, Toxins, Veterinarians, Viruses, crops, officers, seniors, benefits, supports, agents, doctors, officials, plans, schemes, methods, systems, newspapers, tables, articles, appropriations, cases, objects, submissions, purposes, concerns, changes, addicts, groups, orders, types, compounds, issues, disorders, illnesses, influences, outcomes, guys, months, cures, pharmaceuticals, therapies, routes, herbs, qualifications, trials, buildings, uses, nations, preparations, ingredients, items, units, offences, estates, boys, paintings, offenders, revenues, users, SCRIPS, drogues, junkies, kilograms, others, regimes, intoxicants, traffickers, biologics, chemicals, abusers, deployments, downers, specifications, outputs, inhibitors, tits, balls, hopheads, programmes, 1995, produits, antimicrobials, antiretrovirals, roofies, specialisms, pharmaceutiques.
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dope.
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benefits.
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Prescriptions, problems.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Drugs:
- data hierarchy, dark, diaeresis, derris, doric, dry wash, drosky, darkie, darkish, drag, dietrich, diarrhoeic, derrick, dregs, dray horse, do drugs, data track, darkey, dark ages, do work, durga, diarchy, diuresis, dirk, deodourise, Druze, Dr. Seuss, deterge, dirge, dyarchy, drake, dye-works, dreg, dry ice, dragee, darky, Darius I, dressage, dreck, dressy, dirac, dieresis, drawers, doris, diarrheic, dork, drayhorse, drowsy, Darius Iii, Druse, dryas, dross, deodorise, drowse, draco, duress, deodorize, dress, dairy cow, durazzo, dirca, droshky, durres, drogue, dr. j, doorcase.
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drugs
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noun
Definition of drugs
plural of drug
as in medications
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
prescribed a drug to treat the bacterial infection
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verb
present tense third-person singular of drug
as in doses
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doses
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