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dose

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1. dose - Noun

2. dose - Verb

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The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.

To give anything nauseous to.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. Giorgos Seferis

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. Clare Boothe Luce

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. Alex Cox

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers. Ed Sullivan

Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith. Kris Carr

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. American Proverb

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