overdose
IPA: ˈoʊvɝdoʊs
noun
- An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
verb
- (transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
- (intransitive) To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
- (intransitive, figurative) To indulge in something excessively.
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Examples of "overdose" in Sentences
- Drug overdose can kill people.
- He died of a paregoric overdose.
- I'm in the middle of a bloody overdose.
- He would die from a drug overdose by the end of the year.
- He died of an accidental overdose of painkillers in 2007.
- She started to float into the sky because of the overdose.
- The family denied that the overdose was an attempt at suicide.
- The cause of death was listed as cirrhosis and an overdose of cocaine.
- Supportive care is the mainstay of treatment of benzodiazepine overdose.
- The corpses are full of heroin, but the cause of death is not drug overdose.
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