powerful drug

collocation in English

meaningsofpowerfulanddrug

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powerful
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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drug
noun[C]
uk
/drʌɡ/us
/drʌɡ/
any natural or artificially made chemical that is used as ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulanddrugfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this respect the oxazine preparation is the morepowerfuldrug.
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It produces an enormous quantity of apowerfuldrugwhich we accept and know is a drug.
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I am not against the use of alcohol, but society must regulate the use of apowerfuldrug.
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If they are not resisted, in the medium termpowerfuldruginterests will serve only to destabilise the countries concerned.
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I am sure that is considerably due to the fact that they have used thispowerfuldrugwith so much care, skill and discretion.
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Although schemes such as this are very encouraging, we recognise that methadone is apowerfuldrugthat, like any opiate, has addictive properties.
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They have been pushed in one direction by thepowerfuldrugand chemical companies and in the other by the strength of public feeling.
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He uses a potion containing apowerfuldrugto achieve his evil aims.
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He is definitely the mostpowerfuldrugbroker in the world.
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Apowerfuldrugwill keep them dormant for a time, but it only delays the inevitable.
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That is to say, in crises of painful and incurable illnesses doctors, by means of an overdose of morphia or otherpowerfuldrug, have hastened the deaths of their patients.
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During the late 1970s, ethchlorvynol was sometimes over-prescribed causing a minor epidemic of persons who quickly became addicted to thispowerfuldrug.
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What he failed to acknowledge, something that was realized only years later, was that the deaths were due to an escalating war being fought by the increasinglypowerfuldrugcartels.
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