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Overdose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic.

verb-intransitive. To take an overdose.

v. To administer too large a dose or too many doses to.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

v. To dose excessively, to take an overdose.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An excessive dose.

To dose excessively.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. dose too heavily

Word Usage

"A heroin overdose is precisely the “consequence” — and indeed the natural and easily foreseen consequence — of the action involved: using heroic recreationally."

Verb Form

overdosed overdoses overdosing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dose drug

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

dosage ingestion dose injection xr