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# drugged

«drugged» in Mova's school dictionary: **Given a drug, often secretly or against your will, to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Given a drug, often secretly or against your will, to make you sleepy or unable to act. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x1)
- After the operation, I felt drugged and sleepy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x2)
- The vet drugged the lion so it could be moved safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x3)
- The poisoned apple in the fairy tale was drugged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x4)
- Never drink something if you do not know who made it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/#x5)
- The spy realised his tea had been drugged. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drugged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drugged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.