OVERDOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overdose mean? 

• OVERDOSE (verb)
  The verb OVERDOSE has 1 sense:

1. dose too heavily

  Familiarity information: OVERDOSE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERDOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overdose    ... he / she / it overdoses   
Past simple: overdosed   
Past participle: overdosed   
-ing form: overdosing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dose too heavily

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

o.d.; overdose

Context example:

The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room

Hypernyms (to "overdose" is one way to...):

dose; drug (administer a drug to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“Young gentlemen generally has been overdosed with taters.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That way, you can avoid a possible overdose or an unwanted interaction.

(Medicines and Children, Food and Drug Administration)

Damage to the liver tissue due to drug overdose.

(Drug Induced Liver Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include injury, sepsis, drug overdose, and pancreatitis.

(Acute Respiratory Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication or description that an adverse event occurred with an overdose.

(Adverse Event Occurred with Overdose, NCI Thesaurus)

That's why the pigs — specifically those bred to have an overdose of fatty molecules in their arteries — were an important starting point for the current study.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most deaths due to unintentional injury were found to be due to overdose — 72% in the self-harm group and 61% in the ideation group — underscoring the overlap between suicide and overdose risk.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

It is used clinically to reverse the effects of benzodiazepines in conscious sedation, general anesthesia, and management of suspected benzodiazepine overdose.

(Flumazenil Cardioprotection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Common causes include an overactive thyroid gland or thyroid hormone overdose.

(Hyperthyroidism, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

It is an increase in the number of people who died from overdoses of Valium and other benzodiazepines.

(‘Sticky’ gene may help Valium calm nerves, National Institutes of Health)