Meaning & use
doped
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Illicitly gave a drug to a person or animal, especially to affect performance.
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The racehorse was disqualified after officials discovered it had been doped.
Investigators accused the coach of doping several athletes before the championship.
A note on using this word
In materials science, 'doped' has an unrelated technical sense: adding a small amount of impurity to a semiconductor to change its electrical properties.
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2. verb
added a small amount of an impurity to a semiconductor material to alter its electrical properties.
Engineers doped the silicon wafer with phosphorus to increase its conductivity.
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