Administerverb
(transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
Administerverb
(transitive) To apportion out.
Administerverb
(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
Administerverb
(intransitive) To minister (to).
Administerverb
(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
Administerverb
To tender, as an oath.
Administerverb
(medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
Administerverb
To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
Administerverb
To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
Administerverb
To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
Administerverb
To tender, as an oath.
Administerverb
To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
Administerverb
To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
Administerverb
To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
Administernoun
Administrator.
Administerverb
work in an administrative capacity; supervise;
Administerverb
administer ritually; of church sacraments
Administerverb
administer or bestow, as in small portions;
Administerverb
give or apply (medications)
Underdosenoun
An inadequate dose (of a medication).
Underdosenoun
(figuratively) An inadequate amount of something.
Underdoseverb
To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).
Underdoseverb
(transitive) To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).
Underdoseverb
To use a scant or inadequate amount of an ingredient or product.
Underdosenoun
A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.
Underdoseverb
To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.