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verb

past tense of drug

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of drugged
Adjective
The victim told officials that he was bound at the wrists and drugged, shocked with electric wires, hit in the head with a firearm and dangled over a ledge at the top of stairs. Jared Gans, The Hill, 26 May 2025 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 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 13 Sep. 2025.

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