overdose

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Noun

overdose (plural overdoses)

1. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

   die of a heroin overdose.

Translations

• French: surdose, surdosage, overdose
• German: Überdosis
• Italian: overdose
• Portuguese: overdose, superdose, overdose
• Russian: передозиро́вка
• Spanish: sobredosis

Verb

overdose (overdoses, present participle overdosing; past and past participle overdosed)

1. (intransitive) To dose excessively, to take an overdose.

   Be careful not to overdose on those pills.

   She overdosed on cocaine.

2. (intransitive, figurative) To indulge in something excessively.
3. (transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

Related terms

• overdosage

Translations

• French: surdoser
• German: überdosieren
• Russian: передозировка

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