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      dose
      noun
      A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
      The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
      (figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
      (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
      Archaic form of doze. [A light, short sleep or nap.]
      (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
      (dated) A venereal infection.
      verb
      (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
      To prescribe a dose.
      (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
      Archaic form of doze. [(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.]
      (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.
      Roots
      didomidos- · Greek · give
      Synonyms for dose
      dosagendrugnoverdosevinjectionn
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