dose

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Noun

1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
   • Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
2. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
3. Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
   • a healthy dose of skepticism.
5. A venereal infection.
6. A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
   • There's a dose going round.

Verb

1. To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
2. To prescribe a dose.
3. To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
4. To transmit a venereal disease to.

Noun

1. Archaic form of doze.

Verb

1. Archaic form of doze.

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