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# drugged

verb (past and past participle of drug: drug, drugs, drugged, drugging); adjective

«drugged» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Given a drug, often secretly or against your will, to make you sleepy or unable to act. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#m1)
2. Feeling sleepy, slow or confused because of medicine or another drug. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#m2)
3. (of food or drink) Having a drug secretly put in it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and films villains drug a guard's drink to sneak past; in health and safety lessons, never accept drinks from strangers and tell an adult if someone acts drugged; in medicine, animals at the vet may be drugged to keep them calm; phrases: «a drugged drink», «felt drugged».

### Examples

- In the story, the guard was drugged and fell asleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x1)
- After the operation, I felt drugged and sleepy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x2)
- The vet drugged the lion so it could be moved safely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x3)
- The poisoned apple in the fairy tale was drugged. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x4)
- Never drink something if you do not know who made it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x5)
- The spy realised his tea had been drugged. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x6)
- Hermes warned Odysseus that Circe would offer him a draught of drugged wine with the intention of transforming him as she had done his companions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x7)

### Note

Double g: drug → drugged, drugging. Safety: secretly drugging someone is a serious crime. Medicines are drugs too, but only take them as an adult or doctor says.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «drugged» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«drugged» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drugged.html) on Mova free.