I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug overdose (= taking too much of a drug at one time )
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She died from a drug overdose.
took...overdose
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She took an overdose after a row with her boyfriend.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
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Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose .
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They stamp out graffiti, quash drug deals, bust carjacking rings, rescue drug overdose victims, even prevent suicides.
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Finally, the patient himself asked that the doctors kill him: they did so - through a drugs overdose .
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One boy died in a mysterious fire, another of a drug overdose .
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Soon after that, she ended up in hospital after a drug overdose .
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A full inquiry has been launched to find out how Newall, 27, was able to take a drugs overdose .
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Since 1980 the number of drug overdose deaths has increased by 540 %.
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He was working with the Woody Herman band at the time of his death following a drug overdose .
■ VERB
die
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His daughter had died of an overdose of drugs three years before.
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Lymon died from a heroin overdose , Garnes during heart surgery and Negroni from a stroke.
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And if the clients died of an overdose of bullets, he was not too proud to go to their funerals.
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During his absence from home one night, she died of an overdose of laudanum.
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Had a brother who died of an overdose .
take
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First, many patients in hospital have taken overdoses or injured themselves in the past.
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At the age of 20 she took an overdose when she thought a boyfriend was about to desert her.
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The resulting frustration may be, inpart, why they have taken an overdose .
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In addition there was a small risk of her taking an overdose .
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She mentioned the dashing don in a note found in the room where she took an overdose of pain-killers.
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He reportedly told police who questioned him after the school attack that he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers.
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The chronic repeater Patients who repeatedly take overdoses pose considerable management difficulties.
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What to do if some one takes an overdose 1.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an overdose of soap operas
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The 18-year-old male died of an overdose of sleeping pills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acute cocaine overdose may occur at any stage if a package bursts.
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First, many patients in hospital have taken overdoses or injured themselves in the past.
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For small children, an overdose can result from swallowing as few as three vitamins with iron.
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His daughter had died of an overdose of drugs three years before.
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Moon died in 1978, after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism.
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No hypnotic was prescribed in view of the risk of a further overdose .
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Sister Aimee died in 1944, from an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets.
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The hospital subsequently discovered that her death was the result of a massive overdose of a powerful anticancer drug.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be careful, however, not to overdose on blue.
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People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each.
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Right now, he was overdosing on both.
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Some one who thinks he is taking the herbal product but is instead using the illegal Ecstasy could overdose , Green said.
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Texas banned the sale of ephedrine to minors after ten teenagers were taken to emergency rooms after overdosing on the drug.