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to lace

to lace

29 7.7
To secretly add alcohol or drugs to a drink
  • verb
  • /leɪs/
  • NSFW
: adulterar
  • 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
31 7.2

To put alcohol into a drink secretly

can mean adding any strong substance, not only alcohol
to liquor
vsto lace
9 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
4 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 gin
vsto lace
1 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
to fortify
vsto lace
1 7.4

Add alcohol to a drink to make it stronger

can also mean adding other strong substances or doing it secretly

Antonyms

25 3.5

To make a liquid weaker by adding water

Phrasal Verbs

15 3.0

Tie the strings on shoes or boots to make them tight

1 8.5

Criticize or attack someone strongly

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

Compounds

4 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

1 4.4

A craft that forms delicate open patterns from thread by hand

point lace
  • Archaic
1 9.1

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

1 8.1

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

pillow lace
  • Specialized
1 9.9

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

1 8.2

A small bush with silvery leaves and white flowers

1 9.9

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

Valenciennes lace
  • Specialized
1 9.9

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

A climbing plant with fragrant greenish flowers often grown for decoration

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

9.5

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

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

How Strong

to fortify
1 7.4
to lace
  • NSFW
29 7.7
to spike
  • NSFW
31 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.