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verb

past tense of drug

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Recent Examples of drugged
Adjective
In Another Simple Favor climax, Charity and Linda hold a drugged Nicky at gunpoint on a cliffside, forcing a confrontation with Emily and Stephanie. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 2 May 2025 Brunson's video showed the drugged kangaroo being carried to a vehicle to be returned to its home. CBS News, 30 Apr. 2025 In February 2020, Duffy revealed the reason for her lengthy absence from the spotlight: a devastating ordeal some years earlier in which she was raped, drugged and held captive. Rachel Desantis, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025 And that was done mostly wordlessly in a drugged stupor, so that was always going to be a challenge, not to just be the boring guy falling asleep. Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drugged
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drugged
Adjective
  • After an anesthetized cockroach is secured on the platform, a motor slides that rig into position, and a computer vision system assesses the insect's body size and position.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s anesthetized body into the air in a sling winched to a tree.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Later that year, while hospitalized for an alleged appendicitis, Sobhraj took advantage of a blackout caused by the Indo-Pakistani war to escape, slipping out through the drainage pipes.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Winters calls being hospitalized the best thing that ever happened to him.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Former Opa-locka mayor Matthew Pigatt and former Miami-Dade County police department director Stephanie Daniels also attended the program.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The premiere was attended by Johansson along with costars Squibb, 95, Hecht, 60, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Double strain into chilled coupe, express and garnish with a lemon peel.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Drugged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drugged. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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