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dosing

dosing is the present participle and gerund of dose.

Meaning of dose

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
    • "She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."1871, George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, page 270
  2. To prescribe a dose.
  3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
    • The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.2016, Pamela Donovan, Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History, page 71
  4. (dated, transitive) To transmit a venereal disease to.
    • Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok

See all 10 meanings of dose

Noun

dosing (plural dosings)

  1. The administration of a dose

Verb capitalized: DoSing

DoSing

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of DoS

Forms of dosing

pluraldosings

Words formed from dosing

Questions about dosing

What does dosing mean?
Dosing means the administration of a dose.
What is dosing the present participle and gerund of?
Dosing is the present participle and gerund of dose.
What part of speech is dosing?
Dosing can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of dosing?
The plural of dosing is dosings.

Words near dosing in the dictionary

  1. dosimetrics
  2. dosimetries
  3. dosimetrist
  4. dosimetrists
  5. dosimetry
  6. dosing
  7. dosings
  8. dosiology
  9. dosirak
  10. dosiraks
  11. dosis-effect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dosing (page history and authors); DoSing (page history and authors); dose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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