drug in English: Something you take that changes your body or your mind. Some drugs are medicine; others are against the law. (noun)

Translation

Something you take that changes your body or your mind. Some drugs are medicine; others are against the law.

Word origin

From Old French drogue, a word for a supply kept by someone who sold medicine.

Gender

Pluraldrugs

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Here a "drug" is a medicine that a doctor gives you.

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In the plural, "drugs" often means the illegal kind.

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A "drug" is countable: one drug, two drugs.

doctor

A person whose job is to help sick people get well.

hospital

A building where doctors and nurses look after people who are ill or hurt.

sick

Not well in your body.

police

The official group of people whose job is to stop crime and keep people safe.

help

To do something that makes things easier or better for another person.

cigarette

A thin white tube of tobacco that people light and breathe in.

poison

Something that makes you very ill or kills you if you eat it, drink it or breathe it in.

pill

A small hard piece of medicine that you swallow.

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