Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the administration of a sedative agent or drug.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of drug.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the administration of a sedative agent or drug

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word drugging.

Examples

  • The off-label drugging of the Riley children is not an isolated incident.

    Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Sale of Zyprexa 2007

  • These are the same defense attorneys who called my drugging and gang rape a "thoughtless college sex encounter."

    Liz Seccuro: A Plea Deal for George Huguely Liz Seccuro 2010

  • These are the same defense attorneys who called my drugging and gang rape a "thoughtless college sex encounter."

    Liz Seccuro: A Plea Deal for George Huguely Liz Seccuro 2010

  • He was charged with six felonies, and there was substantial physical evidence to corroborate the crimes that he was accused of, namely drugging, raping and sodomizing this poor girl.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009 2009

  • He was charged with six felonies, and there was substantial physical evidence to corroborate the crimes that he was accused of, namely drugging, raping and sodomizing this poor girl.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009 2009

  • But the idea of drugging a tiny mouse, forcing it into some immobilization contraption, then keeping it sedated for hours on end while you try to fix any number of errors is difficult for me.

    Hitting home post-doc 2005

  • ZAHN: They say it's going to be humane, and yet on the front page of "USA Today" there is a report that under the consideration is the idea of drugging these detainees.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2002 2002

  • ZAHN: They say it's going to be humane, and yet on the front page of "USA Today," there is a report under consideration is the idea of drugging these detainees.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2002 2002

  • The drugging is a matter of surmise and evidence which may not be forthcoming, since you are the only witness, and where is the proof?

    Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The CIA is now openly understood to run torture programs so gruesome that the idea of drugging people with any sort of drug is so mild by comparison as to seem immediately acceptable.

    Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives! davidswanson 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.