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to lace

to lace

47 7.7
To secretly add alcohol or drugs to a drink
  • verb
  • /leɪs/
  • NSFW
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  • It appears that his cup was laced with barbital.

Ice latte laced with stuff that gives you hay fever.

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Examples

  • The cannabis-laced butter chocolate is added along with plenty of honey to bind together all the ingredients.

  • Many of the street drugs are laced with fentanyl, adding to the rising overdose rate.

  • A drink laced with laudanum.

  • Two of these young users reported that they tried to smoke marijuana laced with crushed pharmaceutical opioids.

    Academic text (2006)
  • And so he mixed these tubs of a punch and they were laced with, with cyanide.

  • As we suspected, it was laced with a narcotic that induces sleep.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • But he drank juice that was in his refrigerator and the juice was laced with methadone.

  • For years, Marcus Aurelius drank a cup of opium laced wine each night to help himself sleep.

  • Did you know that the glass of water you drank this morning may have been laced with a toxic cocktail of what's known as forever chemicals?

  • The bartender laced the cocktail with a splash of absinthe for added flavor.

Synonyms

to spike
vsto lace
  • NSFW
40 7.2

To put alcohol into a drink secretly

can mean adding any strong substance, not only alcohol
to liquor
vsto lace
8 7.0

To add alcohol to food or give people alcoholic drinks

focuses on secretly enhancing food or drink rather than supplying people
to spike the punch
vsto lace
  • Offensive
3 8.0

Put alcohol into a drink like punch without telling people

is broader, applying to many foods or drinks and not only party beverages
to fortify
vsto lace
3 7.4

Add alcohol to a drink to make it stronger

can also mean adding other strong substances or doing it secretly
to gin
vsto lace
2 5.3

To add a strong clear alcohol to a drink or recipe for more flavor

is more general, covering many spirits or other strong substances

Antonyms

28 3.5

To make a liquid weaker by adding water

Phrasal Verbs

8 3.0

Tie the strings on shoes or boots to make them tight

8.5

Criticize or attack someone strongly

To fasten clothes very tightly by pulling their strings to shape or support the body

Compounds

3 4.1

A thin decorative cloth for a window that lets light in but hides the view

A wild plant with many thin leaves and groups of small white flowers like a carrot that grows in fields

bobbin lace
  • Specialized
1 9.1

A handmade decorative cloth made by twisting thread wound on small wooden spools around pins on a pillow

A fine handmade cloth from Brussels with small open patterns and a raised design

A thin decorative sheet made from food ingredients to decorate cakes and desserts

8.1

A small insect with a thin net pattern on its wings and body that feeds on plant leaves

9.5

A small fern with thin, finely divided leaves that grows in shady, moist places

A craft that forms delicate open patterns from thread by hand

A low plant from Central America that grows along the ground and has frilly white flowers

pillow lace
  • Specialized
9.9

Decorative cloth made by twisting and braiding thread on a cushion marked with pins

point lace
  • Archaic
9.1

Delicate cloth made by sewing with small needle stitches on a paper pattern

A small bush with silvery leaves and white flowers

A climbing plant with fragrant greenish flowers often grown for decoration

A small bush from the Canary Islands with white flowers and silvery leaves and hairy stems

Valenciennes lace
  • Specialized
9.9

A fine handmade lace with small flower patterns from Valenciennes in France

How Strong

to fortify
3 7.4
to lace
  • NSFW
47 7.7
to spike
  • NSFW
40 7.2

Surface Forms

lace infinitive
laced past
laced past participle
lacing present participle
laces third person singular

Etymology

Lace meaning to add alcohol to a drink is easy to remember with a small image: think of adding a 'thread' of strong taste through the drink. A helpful way to remember this is that it uses the same idea of adding a little 'string' or extra that changes the whole drink.