administer
Verb
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Work in an administrative capacity
Supervise or be in charge of (synset 202436818)hyponym:- pontificate - administer a pontifical office
- manage, oversee, superintend, supervise - watch and direct
synonym: administrate -
Perform (a church sacrament) ritually (synset 202314601)
entail: execute, put to death - kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishmenthyponym: insufflate - breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit
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Administer or bestow, as in small portions (synset 202299397)
hypernym: give - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebodyhyponym:
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Give or apply (medications) (synset 200080825)
domain category: medicine, practice of medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injurieshyponym:
- transfuse - give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
- digitalize - administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
- inject, shoot - give an injection to
- give - give (as medicine)
synonym: dispense -
Direct the taking of (synset 202609574)
hypernym: direct - be in charge of
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