drugs

NOUN

medication

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cure medicine narcotic pharmaceutical pill poison prescription remedy stimulant

STRONG

depressant dope essence medicament opiate pharmaceutic physic potion sedative tonic

WEAK

biologic medicinal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disease

VERB

put under influence of medication

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dope medicate poison sedate

STRONG

anesthetize benumb blunt deaden desensitize dose fix hit narcotize numb relax stupefy treat

WEAK

analgize dope up dose up knock out

Antonyms

STRONG

enliven ignore increase neglect

Example Sentences

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Far more employees were prescribed the drugs than expected.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Researchers reported that Wegovy showed the strongest association with ION among semaglutide based GLP-1 drugs analyzed in the study, which was published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Other regions are moving swiftly to stop paying for the drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Even so, the researchers said the findings provide early evidence that the risk may depend on both the formulation and dose of semaglutide drugs.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

When Farmer and his team intervened, proposing a very aggressive combination of MDR drugs—based largely on Farmer’s guesswork—they needed official approval from the Peruvian doctors before the drugs could be administered.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French