All drug synonyms
drug
D d noun drug
- pharmaceutical β pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- prescription β Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- poison β a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- narcotic β any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- remedy β something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
- cure β If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
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- pill β a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard coating, that is to be swallowed whole.
- stimulant β Physiology, Medicine/Medical. something that temporarily quickens some vital process or the functional activity of some organ or part: Adrenalin is a stimulant for the heart. Compare depressant (def 4).
- tonic β a medicine that invigorates or strengthens: a tonic of sulphur and molasses.
- potion β a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
- dope β any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- sedative β tending to calm or soothe.
- opiate β a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- medicament β a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- depressant β able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- physic β a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pharmaceutic β pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- medication β the use or application of medicine.
- painkiller β a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- medicinal β of, relating to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial: medicinal properties; medicinal substances.
- biologic β pertaining to biology.
verb drug
- medicate β to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- sedate β calm, quiet, or composed; undisturbed by passion or excitement: a sedate party; a sedate horse.
- benumb β to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
- hit β to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- numb β deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
- relax β to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
- fix β to repair; mend.
- stupefy β to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- dose β a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- desensitize β To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
- treat β to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- narcotize β to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- deaden β If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
- blunt β If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
- anesthetize β to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
- anaesthetize β When a doctor or other trained person anaesthetizes a patient, they make the patient unconscious or unable to feel pain by giving them an anaesthetic.
- anaesthetise β anesthetize.
- desensitise β to lessen the sensitiveness of.
- knock out β to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.