Definition of Dose

Noun: dose  dows

  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
    - dosage
     
  2. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
    - dosage
     
  3. A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
    - venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, STD
     
  4. Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
    - acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
Verb: dose  dows
  1. Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
    "The ray dosed the paint"
     
  2. (medicine) administer a drug to, esp. in order to make unconscious or docile
    "They dosed the kidnapped tourist";
    - drug

See also:
dosages
dosed

Anagrams containing the word dose

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