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drugging

/ˈdɹʌɡɪŋ/

drugging is the present participle and gerund of drug.

Noun

drugging (countable and uncountable, plural druggings)

  1. The act of giving a dose of drugs (to a person or animal), especially illicitly and improperly.
    • alleged druggings of horses
    • In a small handful of cases, courts have held that state horseracing authorities failed to establish that trainers were responsible for alleged druggings of horses while under their care[…]1998, American Law Reports: Annotations and cases, volume 59, page 253
  2. (informal) The habit of using drugs; drug use.
    • She finally quit all that drinking and drugging that was ruining her life.

Meaning of drug

Verb

drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)

  1. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
    • She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
  2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
    • She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
  3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
    • Past all the doses of your drugging doctors1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet...
  4. (intransitive, rare) To use intoxicating drugs.
    • To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.1990 February 4, Cindy Lanane, “With The Confidence Other Women Have Given Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 6

See all 9 meanings of drug

Forms of drugging

pluraldruggings

Words that rhyme with drugging

Questions about drugging

What does drugging mean?
Drugging means the act of giving a dose of drugs (to a person or animal), especially illicitly and improperly.
What is drugging the present participle and gerund of?
Drugging is the present participle and gerund of drug.
What part of speech is drugging?
Drugging is a noun.
How do you pronounce drugging?
Drugging is pronounced /ˈdɹʌɡɪŋ/.
What is the plural of drugging?
The plural of drugging is druggings.

Words near drugging in the dictionary

  1. druggier
  2. druggies
  3. druggiest
  4. druggily
  5. drugginess
  6. drugging
  7. druggings
  8. druggist
  9. druggist's
  10. druggist's shop
  11. druggists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drugging (page history and authors); drug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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