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