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drugged

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verb

past tense of drug

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Recent Examples of drugged
Adjective
In fact, Dan (Penn Badgley) is the sole believer in the story that Serena was drugged. Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025 The drugged murderers are disassociated in every sense. Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025 The dude can work in Van Halen song titles or stupid words from drugged-out journalists on demand and on command. Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 Then, Wes shows up with Jules Zoblonsky (John Ales), our resident creep who hangs around the scene, who not only put his hand up another hostess’s skirt, but also drugged Anna’s drink the night of her assault, as later confirmed by security camera footage. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drugged
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drugged
Adjective
  • Other teams soon showed that astrocytes in dishes, brain slices, and even anesthetized animals responded to various neurotransmitters.
    Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The lyrics have the same anesthetized ennui as in emo rap and the new wave of online rock, but the beats are menacingly new and dead-set on defacing your consciousness.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Hospitalizations Hundreds of thousands of people in the US are hospitalized with the flu every year.
    Koko Nakajima, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And a 2020 study nearly one in five people hospitalized in the United States between 2005 and 2014 for cyclical vomiting syndrome, a broader diagnosis that includes cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, reported using cannabis at the time.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel.
    Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Roughly a dozen people attended the news conference, including two West Hollywood City Council members, representatives from survivor advocacy groups, attorneys and law professors.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • John Washington, now in his 50s, attended a public elementary and middle school in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia and then went to a large magnet high school, a type of public school that has a selective admission process.
    Leana Cabral, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Offer this Cowboy Pasta Salad at your tailgate as a refreshing, chilled side that still packs the heat.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This is especially true in warmer environments, says Dardarian, because chilled or room-temperature water helps regulate body temperature.
    Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Drugged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drugged. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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