dosed English
Verb
(head)
(dose)
dose English
Noun
( en noun)
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
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* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 382:
- It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
Verb
(dos)
to administer a dose
to prescribe a dose
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doosed English
Alternative forms
* dooced
Adverb
( en adverb)
(degree, dated)
* 1867 , , 2006, Elibron Classics, Volume 1, page 151 ,
- "Upon my word she's a doosed' good-looking little thing," said Archie, coming up to him, after having also shaken hands with her; — "' doosed good-looking, I call her."
* 1872 , Laurence William M. Lockhart, Fair to see , page 149 ,
- I thought my nephew a fool ; I now know that he is a doosed sensible fellow, and the luckiest dog in Christendom — luckiest dog in Christendom, I declare.
* 1938 , G.B. Lancaster (), Promenade , page 143 ,
- Accepted me, did she? Doosed awkward, that. I thought she had more sense.
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