doses

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

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