Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to underdose
Participle: underdosed
Gerund: underdosing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | underdose |
| you | underdose |
| he;she;it | underdoses |
| we | underdose |
| you | underdose |
| they | underdose |
Perfect
| I | have underdosed |
| you | have underdosed |
| he;she;it | has underdosed |
| we | have underdosed |
| you | have underdosed |
| they | have underdosed |
Past
| I | underdosed |
| you | underdosed |
| he;she;it | underdosed |
| we | underdosed |
| you | underdosed |
| they | underdosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had underdosed |
| you | had underdosed |
| he;she;it | had underdosed |
| we | had underdosed |
| you | had underdosed |
| they | had underdosed |
Future
| I | will underdose |
| you | will underdose |
| he;she;it | will underdose |
| we | will underdose |
| you | will underdose |
| they | will underdose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have underdosed |
| you | will have underdosed |
| he;she;it | will have underdosed |
| we | will have underdosed |
| you | will have underdosed |
| they | will have underdosed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | underdose |
| you | underdose |
| he;she;it | underdose |
| we | underdose |
| you | underdose |
| they | underdose |
Perfect
| I | have underdosed |
| you | have underdosed |
| he;she;it | have underdosed |
| we | have underdosed |
| you | have underdosed |
| they | have underdosed |
Imperfect
| I | underdosed |
| you | underdosed |
| he;she;it | underdosed |
| we | underdosed |
| you | underdosed |
| they | underdosed |
Pluperfect
| I | had underdosed |
| you | had underdosed |
| he;she;it | had underdosed |
| we | had underdosed |
| you | had underdosed |
| they | had underdosed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would underdose |
| you | would underdose |
| he;she;it | would underdose |
| we | would underdose |
| you | would underdose |
| they | would underdose |
Perfect
| I | would have underdosed |
| you | would have underdosed |
| he;she;it | would have underdosed |
| we | would have underdosed |
| you | would have underdosed |
| they | would have underdosed |
Imperative
| you | underdose |
| we | Let's underdose |
| you | underdose |
Verbs conjugated like 'underdose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'underdose'
under-dose,
underdope,
undercode,
underdo,
undergore,
underhole,
underpoise,
undertone,
underuse,
undervote,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From under- + dose, by analogy with overdose.
Sample Sentences
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1945, Alexander Fleming, Nobel acceptance speech, cited in Jenny Rohn, “The hunt is on for new antibiotics—but we have to start looking outside the lab,” The Guardian, 19 February, 2015,
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The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.
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2016, Kelly Close, letter to the editor, The New York Times, 29 February, 2016,
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It is true that insulin costs are high; as a result some patients may underdose. We need better reimbursement to address that.
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[…] a Child new-born may take an eighth or tenth part of a paper, a Child of a year old a quarter of a paper or a sixth part, 2, 3, or 4 years old a third 5, 6, 7, half a paper, &c. for you cannot hurt if you over or under dose it a little; the Medicine being safe. [1679, Richard Fletcher, “Directions for the Use of that Excellent Medicine Fletcher’s Powder”, in The Vertues of that Well-Known and Often Experienced Medicine Fletcher’s Powder, London, page 6:]
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An intern underdosed her heparin (blood thinner), and she suffered a large blood clot in a lung. [2013 July 26, Judy Mandell, “‘Critically Ill’ author Frederick Southwick on what ails our healthcare system”, in Los Angeles Times:]
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One such drug class can solve uncontrolled hypertension in perhaps half of cases yet is widely under-prescribed and/or under-dosed, with tragic consequences. [2016 August 21, Samuel J. Mann, “The Scandal of Uncontrolled Hypertension: A Widely-Overlooked Remedy”, in HuffPost:]
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My advice is to slightly under-dose on the whiskey in Delia’s recipe, who I imagine went for a rather better bottle than I did. [2016 November 4, Stephen Bush, “Delia’s Christmas cake recipe takes a little bit of practice”, in The Guardian:]