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💉 To drug someone 🔬 To add impurities
to dope up

to dope up

7 9.4
Give someone drugs to change how they think or act
  • phrasal verb
  • /doʊp ʌp/
  • NSFW
translation icon : drogado
  • It's dangerous to dope up athletes before a competition as it can impair their health.
  • got him doped up
  • keep him doped up
  • so doped up

I walked over and he was like this at the table 'cause he was all doped up.

Examples

  • After the accident, they dope up the injured man to ease his suffering.

  • For the past two days, floating in and out of consciousness, doped up on antihistamines, I have seen the same footage over and over.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • "Is your patient already doped up?"

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Kind of like doping up athletes to win races.

    Ice Spiders (2007)

  • "You know how jockeys dope up horses and still pass the drug tests?

    Fiction book (1994)

  • He's still pretty doped up.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • My father, doped up on painkillers, sleeps all afternoon.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Bela is doped up, glassy-eyed, and disturbingly haggard.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The doctor decided to dope up the patient to manage his pain during the surgery.

Synonyms

to dope
vsto dope up
  • NSFW
33 8.4

To give an athlete or animal drugs to make them perform better unfairly

is the act of giving a substance to alter someone's state
to drug
vsto dope up
  • NSFW
21 7.2

To give someone a substance to make them sleep or act differently

focuses on giving certain substances to change performance or awareness
to roofie
vsto dope up
  • Offensive
3 9.9

To secretly put a strong sleeping drug into someone's drink to make them unable to resist

includes that secret action but also covers nonsecret giving to change performance
to narcotize
vsto dope up
  • NSFW
1 9.5

To give someone a drug that makes them very sleepy or unconscious

is broader, covering substances given to change performance or awareness
to juice up
vsto dope up
  • NSFW
9.3

Give an athlete illegal drugs to make them perform better

usually aims at changing alertness rather than improving athletic output
to opiate
vsto dope up
  • NSFW
8.1

To make someone feel dull and less aware like after taking a strong drug

is the general act of giving substances to change performance or awareness

Antonyms

to detoxify
  • Specialized
3 5.3

To help a person remove alcohol or drugs from their body in a medical setting

How Sedated

to anesthetize
  • Specialized
12 7.1
to dope up
  • NSFW
7 9.4
to sedate
  • Specialized
95 6.8
to dose
28 3.8
to spike
  • NSFW
40 7.2

Surface Forms

dope up infinitive
doped up past
doped up past participle
doping up present participle
dopes up third person singular

Morphology

dope + up

The listed common meaning of 'dope' (to give drugs) combined with 'up' (to increase) does not transparently yield the technical sense of introducing impurities into semiconductors; the MWE relies on a specialized materials‑science sense of 'dope' that B1 learners are unlikely to know. Because the required meaning is domain‑specific and distinct from everyday senses of the constituents, learners who only know the common meanings would not predict this usage.

Etymology

Dope up The verb dope up comes from using dope (a drug) to make someone sleepy or weak. Imagine slipping a drug into someone's drink so they become slow and easy to control; that's why it means 'to give someone drugs to change how they feel or act'.