Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic.
- intransitive verb To take an overdose.
- intransitive verb To administer too large a dose or too many doses to.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dose excessively.
- noun An excessive dose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Too great a dose; an excessive dose.
- transitive verb To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
excessive and dangerousdose of adrug . - verb intransitive To dose
excessively , to take an overdose.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dose too heavily
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Examples
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A heroin overdose is precisely the “consequence” — and indeed the natural and easily foreseen consequence — of the action involved: using heroic recreationally.
Punishment 2008
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The link in red with the title "overdose of vitamin A" is malformed.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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Instead of using large doses of pharmacological agents to inhibit or suppress symptoms, very small and specially prepared doses of medicinal substances are individually prescribed to a person for their unique ability to cause in overdose the similar symptoms that the sick person is having.
Dana Ullman: Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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Your poison control center can help you figure out when an overdose is severe.
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Morbidity associated with theophylline overdose is usually caused by its severe effects on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems.
Theophylline 2010
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Prescription drug overdose is a problem not only with former WWE talent, but society as a whole according to the Centers for Disease Control, as it is the second leading cause of unintentional death (particularly among younger people) in the U.S.
Dave Zirin: Linda McMahon's Body Count Dave Zirin 2010
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‘Robocop’ who targeted drug dealer died from heroin overdose | Mail Online
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Instead of using large doses of pharmacological agents to inhibit or suppress symptoms, very small and specially prepared doses of medicinal substances are individually prescribed to a person for their unique ability to cause in overdose the similar symptoms that the sick person is having.
Homeopathy: A Healthier Way to Treat Depression? Dana Ullman 2010
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At the very end we had a possible aspirin overdose but I really hope that came out well.
Wow... good going there. tragic_elegance 2009
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Prescription drug overdose is a problem not only with former WWE talent, but society as a whole according to the Centers for Disease Control, as it is the second leading cause of unintentional death (particularly among younger people) in the U.S.
Dave Zirin: Linda McMahon's Body Count Dave Zirin 2010
dailyword commented on the word overdose
House would do this sometimes with his Vicodin.
June 13, 2012