overdose

From over- +‎ dose.

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/

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overdose (plural overdoses)

1. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

   to die of a heroin overdose

• overdosage (which is a less common synonym for this concept)

From over- +‎ dose.

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdəʊs/

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overdose (third-person singular simple present overdoses, present participle overdosing, simple past and past participle overdosed)

1. (transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to someone.
2. (intransitive) To dose excessively, to take an overdose.

   Be careful not to overdose on those pills.

   She overdosed on cocaine.

3. (intransitive, figurative) To indulge in something excessively.
   • 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     They still had Sergio Agüero to bring off the bench and the Etihad was overdosing on optimism. For the game to finish with an aggregate 5-1 score distorts the fact the occasion was full of drama and suspense until Salah’s goal conclusively changed the complexion of the evening.

• OD
• overdoser

• overdosage

• does over, overdoes

Borrowed from English overdose.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.vəʁ.doz/, /ɔ.vɛʁ.doz/

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overdose f (plural overdoses)

1. (medicine) overdose (excessive and dangerous dose of a drug)

   Synonym: surdose

2. (figuratively) overdose of, excess of, surfeit of something (instance of someone having had too much of something, having overdone something)

   Near-synonym: indigestion

• “overdose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English overdose.

• IPA^(key): /o.verˈdɔ.ze/, /o.verˈdoz/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔze, -oz
• Hyphenation: o‧ver‧dò‧se

overdose f (invariable)

1. (medicine) overdose

• doverose

Borrowed from English overdose.

overdose m (definite singular overdosen, indefinite plural overdoser, definite plural overdosene)

1. an overdose

• “overdose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English overdose.

overdose m (definite singular overdosen, indefinite plural overdosar, definite plural overdosane)

1. an overdose

• “overdose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English overdose.

• Rhymes: -ɔzi, -ɔzɨ

overdose f (plural overdoses)

1. overdose (excessive and dangerous dose of a drug)

   Synonyms: superdose, sobredose