OVERDOSE


Meaning of OVERDOSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)doʊs ]

( overdoses, overdosing, overdosed)

1.

If someone takes an overdose of a drug, they take more of it than is safe.

Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15-19 takes an overdose...

N-COUNT : usu sing

2.

If someone overdoses on a drug, they take more of it than is safe.

He’d overdosed on heroin...

Medical opinion varies on how many tablets it takes to overdose.

VERB : V on n , V

3.

You can refer to too much of something, especially something harmful, as an overdose .

An overdose of sun, sea, sand and chlorine can give lighter hair a green tinge.

N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N of n

4.

You can say that someone overdoses on something if they have or do too much of it.

The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design.

VERB : V on n

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