English Dictionary

drug

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹʌɡ/

名詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 略語 別表記 くだけた表現

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

日本語の意味

病気の治療、症状の緩和、または体内の化学プロセスの調節を目的として使用される医薬品や薬物

The doctor prescribed a new drug to reduce inflammation and speed the patient's recovery.

医師は炎症を抑え、患者の回復を早めるために新しい薬を処方した。

意味（1）

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, acts against inflammation and lowers body temperature.

意味（2）

A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

take drugs

意味（3）

Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.

Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

意味（4）

Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.

And virtue shall a drug become.

意味（5）

(Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.

“I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

drugs （ plural ）