Synonyms for dose

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dohs

Phonetic Transcription : doʊs

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Définition of dose

Origin : c.1600, from Middle French dose (15c.), from Late Latin dosis, from Greek dosis "a portion prescribed," literally "a giving," used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from stem of didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)). Slang meaning "venereal disease" is from 1914.

noun portion of drug or other consumable

Example sentences :

This cop that found me in a hallway, he says I must have been give a dose of Peter.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

It is not strange that when we have swallowed the dose it does little to effect a cure.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

We are to be cured by an excess of the dose that has poisoned us.
Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw

Let us by all means give them instead a dose of positive philosophy.
Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards

She could not tell the exact time, because, in spite of her efforts, she had ended by falling into a dose.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

To please my aunt I was obliged to swallow a dose of every drug.
Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola

The dose was sort of bitter, but it had the necessary effect.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

I cooked a kittleful and got him to take a dose four times a day.
Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln

"Since I must sleep, let my sleep at least be dreamless," he said, and he measured a dose.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Give me a dose of medicine, Martha—the morning medicine—the one that makes me cheerful.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

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