doped
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Under the influence of narcotics or drugs: Refers to a person or animal whose mental or physical state is altered by the administration of a drug, often an illegal or performance-enhancing substance.
- Treated or impregnated with a foreign substance: Refers to a material or object that has been deliberately mixed with or coated by an additive to alter its properties.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective (Influenced by drugs):
- The athlete was disqualified after testing positive for being doped.
- He was found doped and confused, unable to answer the officer's questions.
- Adjective (Treated with a substance):
- The doped semiconductor is essential for the function of the transistor.
- They used doped fuel to increase the engine's power output.
Advanced Usage
- "to be doped up": to be heavily under the influence of drugs, often sedatives or painkillers.
- After the surgery, he was doped up on morphine for the pain.
- In technical contexts (e.g., physics, chemistry), "doped" precisely describes a base material with small quantities of another element added to change its electrical or optical characteristics.
- The doped silicon crystal has different conductive properties than pure silicon.
Variants and Related Words
- Dope (noun): An illegal drug, or a thick liquid/varnish used as a sealant or lubricant.
- The police found dope in his car.
- He applied dope to the fabric of the model airplane.
- Dope (verb): To administer a drug to someone or something; to add an impurity to a material.
- The trainer was accused of trying to dope the racehorse.
- Scientists dope the material to create a better catalyst.
- Dopey (adjective): Stupid or sluggish, as if under the influence of drugs; silly.
- I feel dopey after taking that cold medicine.
Synonyms
- Drugged: Under the influence of drugs.
- Narcotized: Rendered insensible or stuporous by a narcotic.
- Laced: Containing an added substance, often a drug (e.g., "laced with poison").
- Adulterated: Made poorer in quality by adding another substance (often implies deception).
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
- Dope out (slang): To figure out or solve.
- I finally doped out the solution to the puzzle.
- Dope up: To administer drugs to.
- The vet will dope up the animal before the procedure.
Related Idioms
- A dope slap/head slap: A gesture of frustration at someone's foolishness.
- His mistake was so obvious it deserved a dope slap.
Adjective
- under the influence of narcotics
- knocked out by doped wine
- a drugged sleep
- were under the effect of the drugged sweets
- in a stuperous narcotized state
- treated or impregnated with a foreign substance