Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

drug-abuser

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: drug-abus-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of drug abuser.

Example Sentences

"Last year, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of doctors from Boston City Hospital reported that a survey showed “there may be far more drug-abusers and addicts in the general population than has ever been suspected.”"
"Even agents of the Florida State Bureau of Narcotics are not entirely sure where drug-abusers get the pills."
"Working closely with his former colleagues on the council and his nationally-experienced police chief, Rick Sanders, J-town’s Angel program for self-admitted drug-abusers has proven so successful it has been adopted by over 300 cities state-wide."

Inflected Forms

drug-abusers (plural)

Questions

What does drug-abuser mean?: Alternative form of drug abuser.

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