druggedadj.
/drʌɡd/, U.S. /drəɡd/ 1. Of food, drink, etc.: adulterated with a drug, esp. a sedative or narcotic; containing a drug.
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1758 New Atalantis (ed. 2) 58 Fired by the drugged wine,..he rushed into her arms.
1804 J. Galt Battle of Largs 2 Fiercely through the witched smoke, Their drugged caldron muttering glar'd.
1832 C. M. Sedgwick Le Bossu iii. 79 The Saxon churl at the other end of the gallery is easily disarmed by a cup of drugged Rhenish.
a1880 ‘G. Eliot’ in Pall Mall Gaz. (1885) 9 Feb. Brewers with their drugged ale.
1903 Chicago Daily News 16 Dec. 1/7 The Lone Star saloon..described..as the scene of blood-curdling crimes through the agency of drugged liquor.
2006 FourFourTwo Aug. 98/1 His coup de grace—admitting that Argentina cheated at Italia 90 by giving Brazil players drugged water.
2.
a. Of sleep, a state, etc.: induced or affected by a drug. Of a person: intoxicated or sedated by a drug.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drugging a person or thing > [adjective]
drugged1812
hocussed1865
loaded1923
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective]
intoxicated1576
drunk1585
besotted1831
drugged1871
dopey1896
doped1903
piped1906
lit1912
loaded1923
high1932
polluted1938
stone1945
straight1946
impaired1951
on the nod1951
buzzed1952
stoned1953
hung1958
strung out1959
zonked1959
shot1964
out of (also off) one's bird1966
ripped1966
wiped1966
amped1967
tanked1968
wrecked1968
whacked out1969
wired1970
jagged1973
funked up1976
annihilated1980
junked out1982
obliterated1984
caned1992
wankered1992
twatted1993
1812 J. Galt Maddalen iii. viii, in Tragedies 52 Am I in a dream, And these but visions, metaphysical, Bred in my drugged sleep?
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xxii. 504 The drugged soul is beyond the reach of reason.
1928 E. S. Conklin Princ. Abnormal Psychol. iii. 44 Stuporous, drugged, confused states..obviously make a detailed impression impossible.
1962 S. Wynter Hills of Hebron i. 20 The obeahman long ago..haunted her respectability with red drugged eyes.
1990 T. O'Neill in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture 302 When their blindfolds were removed, the drugged peasants were confronted with an intoxicating vision of running brooks, exotic plants and animals, and shapely houris.
b. colloquial. With out, up. Characterized by the taking of narcotic drugs; (of a person) having taken drugs; extremely intoxicated by a drug.
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1972 Washington Post 18 Feb. c15/2 ‘Easy Rider’ was a drugged-up, rocked-out picaresque travelogue of ‘life’ in these United States.
1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 23 Jan. 11 The drugged-out band of hippies who were involved with Manson nine years ago.
1996 Loaded Sept. 85/1 They ended up in a room..littered with..drugged-up members of the Stone Temple Pilots.
2006 Wired Apr. 28/1 A freaky extraterrestrial becomes a drugged-out bisexual rock god.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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