(~s, overdosing, ~d)
1.
If someone takes an ~ of a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15-19 takes an ~...
N-COUNT: usu sing
2.
If someone ~s on a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
He’d ~d on heroin...
Medical opinion varies on how many tablets it takes to ~.
VERB: V on n, V
3.
You can refer to too much of something, especially something harmful, as an ~.
An ~ 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 ~s on something if they have or do too much of it.
The city, he concluded, had ~d on design.
VERB: V on n