Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic.
- intransitive v. To take an overdose.
- transitive v. To administer too large a dose or too many doses to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
- v. To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose.
- transitive v. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dose excessively.
- n. An excessive dose.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. dose too heavily
Etymologies
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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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At the very end we had a possible aspirin overdose but I really hope that came out well.
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Your poison control center can help you figure out when an overdose is severe.
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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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Morbidity associated with theophylline overdose is usually caused by its severe effects on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems.
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His death initially believed to be related to his heart condition was later confirmed as a drug overdose from a mixture of heroin and cocaine.
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There was Jerry Felzberg, an ace tennis and chess player, dead of a heroin overdose shortly after we graduated from college.
dailyword commented on the word overdose
House would do this sometimes with his Vicodin.
June 13, 2012