dose vs medicate

dose is a noun but medicate is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dose	Yes	No	Yes	No
medicate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, medicate is a hypernym of dose; that is, medicate is a word with a broader meaning than dose:

Other hypernyms of dose include medicine.

dose (noun)	medicate (noun)
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

dose (verb)	medicate (verb)
administer a drug to	treat medicinally, treat with medicine
treat with an agent; add (an agent) to	impregnate with a medicinal substance