OVERDOSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

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

Example:

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

Synonyms:

o.d.; overdose

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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

dose; drug (administer a drug to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

Context examples:

An indication or description that an event occurs concurrently with a substance overdose.

(Occurs with Overdose, NCI Thesaurus)

It results from damage to the liver parenchyma usually secondary to acetaminophen overdose or viral infections.

(Acute Liver Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Major health problems from heroin include miscarriages, heart infections, and death from overdose.

(Heroin, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

It can be associated with hypoxia, ischemia, acute myocardial infarction, and medication overdose.

(Bigeminy Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, apomorphine hydrochloride acts on the chemoreceptor trigger zone and is used as a central emetic in the treatment of drug overdose.

(Apomorphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Immediate, short-term counseling (talking with a professional counselor) to stop a critical emotional incident (e.g., attempted suicide or drug overdose) from getting worse.

(Crisis intervention, NCI Dictionary)

Inducing a potent analgesia, the use of diamoprhine is often escalated due to a tolerance effect, resulting in abuse that is associated with fatal overdose, abortion, venous sclerosis, and opportunistic infections, among other adverse effects.

(Diacetylmorphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.