Dictionary entry details
• ADMINISTER (verb)
Meaning:
Work in an administrative capacity; supervise
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
administer; administrate
Context example:
administer a program
Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):
care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):
pontificate (administer a pontifical office)
manage; oversee; superintend; supervise (watch and direct)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Administer ritually; of church sacraments
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):
apply; give (give or convey physically)
"Administer" entails doing...:
execute; put to death (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):
insufflate (breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Administer or bestow, as in small portions
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
shell out; parcel out; mete out; dole out; distribute; dispense; dish out; deal out; lot; allot; administer; deal
Context examples:
administer critical remarks to everyone present / dole out some money / shell out pocket money for the children / deal a blow to someone
Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):
give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):
apply; give (give or convey physically)
deal (distribute to the players in a game)
reallot (allot again)
allot; assign; portion (give out or allot)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Give or apply (medications)
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
dispense; administer
Hypernyms (to "administer" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
"Administer" entails doing...:
apply; give (give or convey physically)
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 injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administer"):
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))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
