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1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
   - dosage
    
2. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
   - dosage
    
3. A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
   - venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, STD
    
4. [slang] Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
   - acid [slang], back breaker [slang], battery-acid [slang], dot [slang], Elvis [slang], loony toons [slang], Lucy in the sky with diamonds [slang], pane [slang], superman [slang], window pane [slang]

1. Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
   "The ray dosed the paint"
    
2. (medicine) administer a drug to, esp. in order to make unconscious or docile
   "They dosed the kidnapped tourist";
   - drug

Derived forms: doses, dosed, dosing

Type of: contagion, contagious disease, indefinite quantity, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, medicament, medicate, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, process, treat

Encyclopedia: Dose, absorbed