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micro-dose

micro-dose is the alternative spelling of microdose.

Meaning of microdose

Verb

microdose (third-person singular simple present microdoses, present participle microdosing, simple past and past participle microdosed)

  1. (transitive) To administer a very low dose to.
  2. (transitive) To prepare (medicines, etc.) at very low dosages.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To recreationally take small amounts of psychedelic drugs in the belief that it will aid productivity.
    • microdose on LSD

See all 4 meanings of microdose

Forms of micro-dose

third-person singular presentmicro-doses
present participlemicro-dosing
past participlemicro-dosed
pastmicro-dosed

Questions about micro-dose

What is micro-dose the alternative spelling of?
Micro-dose is the alternative spelling of microdose.

Words near micro-dose in the dictionary

  1. micro-culture
  2. micro-cultures
  3. micro-dermabrasion
  4. micro-diskette
  5. micro-diskettes
  6. micro-dose
  7. micro-dosed
  8. micro-doses
  9. micro-dosing
  10. micro-drama
  11. micro-dramas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-dose (page history and authors); microdose (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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