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drug-addled

drug-addled adjective: mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs.

Adjective

drug-addled (comparative more drug-addled, superlative most drug-addled)

  1. mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs.
    • When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN

Forms of drug-addled

comparativemore drug-addled
superlativemost drug-addled

Origin of drug-addled

From drug + addled.

Questions about drug-addled

What does drug-addled mean?
Drug-addled means mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs.
What part of speech is drug-addled?
Drug-addled is an adjective.

Words near drug-addled in the dictionary

  1. drug withdrawals
  2. drug wormseed
  3. drug wormseeds
  4. drug-abuser
  5. drug-abusers
  6. drug-addled
  7. drug-dealer
  8. drug-dealers
  9. drug-fiend
  10. drug-fiends
  11. drug-free

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