Administer vs. Underdose — What's the Difference?

To have charge of; manage.

An inadequate dose (of a medication).

To give or apply in a formal way

(figuratively) An inadequate amount of something.

To apply as a remedy

To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).

To direct the taking of (an oath).

(transitive) To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).

To mete out; dispense

To use a scant or inadequate amount of an ingredient or product.

To manage (a trust or estate) under a will or official appointment.

A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.

To impose, offer, or tender (an oath, for example).

To give an underdose or underdoses to; to practice giving insufficient doses.

To manage as an administrator.

To minister

(transitive) To apportion out, distribute.

(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.

(intransitive) To minister (to).

(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To give, as an oath.

(transitive) (medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.

(transitive) (medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

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.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.

To tender, as an oath.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Administrator.

Work in an administrative capacity; supervise;

Administer ritually; of church sacraments

Administer or bestow, as in small portions;

Give or apply (medications)