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.
- noun An excessive dose.
- To dose excessively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
- noun Too great a dose; an excessive dose.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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At the very end we had a possible aspirin overdose but I really hope that came out well.
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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.
dailyword commented on the word overdose
House would do this sometimes with his Vicodin.
June 13, 2012