Meaning of Underdose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inadequate dose (of a medication).
2. An inadequate amount of something.
   figuratively

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Examples

““[…] I put⟳ laudanum in his coffee last⟳ night. I was afraid to put⟳ in too much for fear of killing him, so I suppose⟳ I didn’t put⟳ in enough, for he laid wide awake⟳ all night.” “Ah, yes! that would be the effect of an under-dose of laudanum.””

“If Patrick were to add⟳ a little sugar to her urine specimen so that she would take⟳ a hefty dose of insulin, and then to make⟳ her take⟳ a good walk⟳ without her little tin of glucose […] she would probably pass⟳ out on the mountainside. Or suppose⟳ he substituted his own⟳ urine in the test⟳ tube so that she would take⟳ an under-dose?”

““Seems as though sometimes I get⟳ an overdose of feeling, and an underdose of sense⟳.””

“It seems the kid suffers from an underdose of mother love⟳, so he kills pretty girls—exactly the problem of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.””

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