dose

1. 1.

   treat with an agent; add (an agent) to

   “The ray dosed the paint”

   Broaderprocess
2. 2.

   administer a drug to

   “They drugged the kidnapped tourist”

   Synonymsdrug

   Broadermedicate

   Narroweranesthetizedopeoverdosenarcotizepoison

   medicine

Other forms of dose

plural

doses·

past tense

dosed·

present participle

dosing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dose

What does dose mean?

dose means "a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dose?

dose has 1 syllable: dose. In IPA it is /ˈdoʊs/.

What is another word for dose?

Close synonyms include dosage, dosage, venereal disease, VD, venereal infection. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dose a common word?

dose is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dose?

1 word rhymes with dose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.