dose
/ˈdoʊ̯s/ verb C2- To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
- To prescribe a dose.
- To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
- To transmit a venereal disease to.
He/she/it doses · Past dosed · Past participle dosed · -ing form dosing
Verb forms
- Base form
- dose
- He/she/it
- doses
- Past
- dosed
- Past participle
- dosed
- -ing form
- dosing
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“If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.”
I’m going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all.”
I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself--not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings--‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.’ But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away.
By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr.
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