Drug
Drug noun - A substance or preparation used to treat disease.
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Synonyms for Drug
Medicines and drug are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Medicines" with "Drug", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: druggy
Medicines
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- Studies have proven that flavorless medicines are ranked worse than foul-tasting medicines in terms of effectiveness....even when they're the exact same drug!
Source: Necessary Drawback - In SeinLanguage, Jerry Seinfeld writes about going to the drug store for cold medicine, seeing an entire wall of cold medicines, and having absolutely no idea which one to buy.
Source: Freedom from Choice -
Eirin's shady new drug: Eirin is able to make unusual medicines of dubious pharmaceutical benefit and with nearly any bizarre effect imaginable.
Source: Excuse Plot
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Medicines and Drug. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drug/medicines
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