drugged

1. 1
   adjective

   Containing one or more drugs that have been added or laced in.

   Detectives found a box of drugged chocolates in the victim's apartment.

   He understood too late that his cocktail had been drugged.

   Similarspiked, laced, doped, doctored

   Note

   Here the word describes the thing that was tampered with, like drugged chocolates or a drugged cocktail. After had been, it is hard to tell apart from the past participle, because the cocktail had been drugged reads either way. As an adjective it compares with more and most, never with -er.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of drug.

   Investigators believe the victims were drugged before the robbery.

   He drugged the wine to keep his guests asleep until dawn.

   Note

   The verb can take two kinds of object, and the meaning shifts with each. You can drug a person, or you can drug the drink meant for them. Both uses are transitive, and the passive is common: the victims were drugged. Keep it apart from drug itself, which in Southern US dialect serves as the past tense of drag. Drugged belongs only to the verb about drugs.

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