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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dose.

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  • adjective treated with some kind of application

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Examples

  • Tuesday, Angula said Namibia's youth lacked a national identity and were being "dosed" with extraneous influences and aspirations.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Both the lemonade and the sandwiches had been "dosed" by

    Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work 1887

  • Silent Poll returned with a scowling face when the old woman, whom she had 'dosed' with brandy, went asleep, and resumed her yarn balling Roland lay upon the ground and read.

    Four Canadian Highwaymen 1873

  • Alongside Elliott Landy, Marshall chronicled the performers and the audience at the three-day Woodstock festival in 1969, where he was "dosed" with LSD by the Grateful Dead.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Sean O'Hagan 2010

  • Alongside Elliott Landy, Marshall chronicled the performers and the audience at the three-day Woodstock festival in 1969, where he was "dosed" with LSD by the Grateful Dead.

    The Guardian World News Sean O'Hagan 2010

  • If it is later proven and obvious that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, then those following her rants will either seem quite the dupes, or will claim the government 'dosed' her and bought on the mental illness.

    Red Ice Creations 2009

  • I've never known anyone who was "dosed" with a drug, but I am familiar with the urban legend of drinks spiked with alcohol, or marijuana laced with PCP.

    Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats 2008

  • "dosed" porridge, Andrew again catechised his grandma concerning the casting of her vote.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • "dosed" several of us with alcohol (for me, rum) until we blew a .08.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • How any Christian allows their children to be dosed up with all sorts of completely unnatural drugs is beyond me.

    9-year-old child Given Marijuana for Medical Reasons 2009

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