OVERDOSE


Meaning of OVERDOSE in English

(~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

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