to dose
- verb
- /doʊs/
- Say again, so when you take care of children, how do you dose their medication?
And the CIA actually for a while was dosing each other secretly.
- And the CIA actually for a while was dosing each other secretly.
- He instructed people to do their own blinding, their own placebo-controlled blinding of their own micro dosing.
- Basically what you consider best practices in terms of format, dosing schedule, etcetera for ketamine as applied to depression.
- Like are you doing like one one shot a week or you are you micro dosing?
- But do we have any literature to point us in any direction with respect to what type of dosing starts to suppress?
- The monster's throat is dosed, its breath is throttled in its passages.
- If you go a few macro dosing, bro, you know, that's when you're doing self surgery down there in Orange Beach.
Examples
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He learned how to dose his dog with the correct amount of flea medication.
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The nurse will dose the patient with the prescribed amount of medicine.
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Might have to dose you at the next rest stop.
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Did you dose the Gen 2 with the serum?
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Unless we dose her with Bellerophon, Nyah will kill herself.
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I am reading up on herbs, dosing myself each day.
Fiction book (1993) -
So with my kid right now, we're dosing her with peanut butters.
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In an attempt to strengthen her, her mother doses her with her own elixir, anisette.
Academic text (1992) -
Make sure to dose your medication according to the instructions on the label.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
A thing that is very unpleasant or embarrassing, like a joke that is not funny
Compounds
- Specialized
An extra vaccine dose given after the first doses to increase protection
- Specialized
A measurement of how much radiation a person or object receives that can harm the body
- Specialized
An extra vaccine or medicine given later to make the first one work well
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dose as a verb comes from the same old Greek dosis 'a giving', and it keeps the idea of 'giving' a measured amount of medicine or another substance to someone or something.