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Definition: Drugging |
DruggingNoun1. The administration of a sedative agent or drug. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drugging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Synonym: DruggingSynonym: sedation (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Medical Committee against the Abuse of Prisoners by Drugging (medicine, social sciences). |
Crosswords: Drugging |
| English words defined with "drugging": nobble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drugging": Doctored Dice ♦ LAUREATE. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Sir Arthur Helps | Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for drugging thought. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Saudi Arabia | There were reports during the year that the authorities tortured detainees and pressured them to confess by isolation, blindfolding, and drugging over a period of weeks. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Ministry of Interior officials are responsible for most incidents of abuse of prisoners, including beatings, whippings, sleep deprivation, and at least three cases of drugging of foreign prisoners. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | Numerous articles in a broad range of newspapers as well as television documentaries, drew lurid and inaccurate pictures of the activities of non-Orthodox religious groups, attributing the breakup of families and drug abuse by youths to the practices of these groups and alleging that evangelicals were drugging young children. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drugging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "Drugging" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 84.62% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drugging | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drugging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 服麻醉剂 (drugged). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 마약을 상용. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uggingdray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "drugging": bedrugging. (additional references) | |
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"Drugging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: druggings, druging, dugin, frugging, rugging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drugging" (pronounced dru"ging) |
| 5 | -r u" g i ng | shrugging. |
| 4 | -u" g i ng | bugging, chugging, debugging, hugging, lugging, mugging, plugging, slugging, snugging, tugging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, cataloging, cataloguing, clogging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, slogging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grudging. | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: gurging, rugging. | |
-2 letters: during, ungird, urging. | |
-3 letters: grind, ruing, unrig. | |
-4 letters: ding, drug, dung, durn, gird, girn, grid, grig, grin, guid, nurd, rind, ring, ruin, rung. | |
-5 letters: dig, din, dug, dui, dun, gid, gig, gin, gnu, gun, rid, rig, rin, rug, run, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: bedrugging, begrudging, grudgingly, ungrudging. | |
+3 letters: outdragging, ruggedizing. | |
+4 letters: begrudgingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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