dose

Meanings

• a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
• the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
• a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
• street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
• treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
  • "The ray dosed the paint"
• administer a drug to

Synonyms

acid, back breaker, battery-acid, Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, dosage, dot, drug, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, superman, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse, window pane, Zen