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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