lääke — meaning in English
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English meaning
- drug noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.
- medication noun A drug or medicine used to treat an illness.
- medicinal adj Having healing properties, or used to treat illness.
- medicine noun A substance taken to treat or prevent illness.
- remedy noun Something that fixes a problem or relieves an unwanted condition.
Senses
lääke is used for these senses in English:
- drug (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- medication A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
- medicinal Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
- medicine (uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
- medicine (uncountable) The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- remedy Something that corrects or counteracts.
- remedy A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
drug — full definition
- noun A substance taken for its effect on the body or mind, whether medicinal or intoxicating.
- verb To secretly give someone an intoxicating or sedating substance.
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