a measured amount of medicine, drug, or other substance taken or given at one time
The doctor told me to take one dose of the syrup every eight hours.
After forgetting his morning dose, he felt the pain return.
✦ Mid-16th century: from French dose, from late Latin dosis, from Greek dosis ‘a giving, gift’, from didonai ‘give’.
an amount or experience of something, often unpleasant or surprising, that affects you at one time
The shocking news gave her a hard dose of reality.
We all need a daily dose of laughter.
to give or take a measured amount of medicine, drug, or other substance
The pharmacist will dose the liquid into a small cup.
Parents should not dose children with adult cold medicine.
