dose
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Is dose a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.Synonyms: filldatedfiguratively
2. (figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.Examples: "“I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.”"; "The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down."figuratively
3. (dated) A venereal infection.Examples: "Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast."; "It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful."dated
4. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.Examples: "There's a dose going round."Irelandcolloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.Examples: ""She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate.""transitive
2. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.Examples: "The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink."transitive
3. (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.Examples: "Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper."datedtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary