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adjective

Definition of druggednext
as in anesthetized

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verb

past tense of drug
as in hospitalized

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Recent Examples of drugged
Adjective
Minnelli writes that Garland would remain in bed for days, depressed and heavily drugged. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026 After the first injection, Plaintiff appeared drugged on camera. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026 One drugged and raped his own wife according to Pelicot’s instructions and offered her to Pelicot; another proposed his mother as a prospective victim. — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026 Equally deft are Fitzwater’s amazingly smooth staging and Dunn’s deliriously frenzied choreography, such as the liquid mercury depiction of Mary Jane in a drugged daze drifting through chores. — Bill Hirschman, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for drugged
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drugged
  1. anesthetized
  2. hospitalized
  3. stupefied
  4. attended
  5. chilled
Adjective
  • Future research could help clinicians guide the anesthetized brain toward a sleep-like state, rather than a coma-like one.
    — Lucy Nemchek, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2026
  • But a new study of people in this state suggests the anesthetized brain still picks up sounds, words and even conversations.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
Definition of anesthetized
Verb
  • The driver, an adult man, was hospitalized with critical injuries, Metro Fire Capt.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
  • Rodríguez described scenes of children hospitalized with amputations and survivors grieving multiple family deaths.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Definition of hospitalized
Adjective
  • The boy is stupefied, snot intermingling with the puke dripping from his mouth to his navel.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Definition of stupefied
Verb
  • Parker and Stone have frequented the restaurant recently but have not attended one of the 14 bargaining sessions with Actor’s Equity, according to Shields.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Dancer/choreographer Kameron Saunders, a University of Missouri-Kansas City alum who toured with Swift on the Eras Tour, attended with his brother, Khalen Saunders, an NFLer who played with the Chiefs from 2019 to 2022.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
Definition of attended
Adjective
  • The dilemma of a dip becoming too warm becomes a non-issue with a chilled dip keeper.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • First up, a light and lovely starter course of chilled soup.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2026
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