underdosev.
1. transitive. To dose (a person) insufficiently; to administer too small a dose to.
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1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen p. liv Nature will,..by acute and intolerable Pains from Hunger, apprize him at least in some time, if he has under-dos'd her.
2. To give in insufficient doses.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [verb (transitive)] > stint
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1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 216 On the contrary, I was rather induced to think, that it had..been usually under-dosed.
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