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DOSED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dosed mean?
• DOSED (adjective)
The adjective DOSED has 1 sense:
1. treated with some kind of application
Familiarity information: DOSED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Treated with some kind of application
Context example:
a mustache dosed with bear grease
Similar:
treated (given medical care or treatment)
Context examples
Mice and rats did not even need to be dosed with the chemicals to see the effect.
(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In the experiment, one group of mice were also dosed with the vegetable derived antioxidant sulforaphane (SFN).
(Antioxidants May Prevent Cognitive Impairment in Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He promptly diagnosed her affliction as La Grippe, dosed her with hot whiskey (the remnants in the bottles for which Brissenden was responsible), and ordered her to bed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Well,” he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—“well, that's done for today.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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