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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An excessive dose, especially of a narcotic.
  2. v. To take an overdose.
  3. v. To administer too large a dose or too many doses to.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An excessive dose.
  2. To dose excessively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
  2. v. intransitive To dose excessively, to take an overdose.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
  2. n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. dose too heavily

Examples

  • “A heroin overdose is precisely the “consequence” — and indeed the natural and easily foreseen consequence — of the action involved: using heroic recreationally.”

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  • “At the very end we had a possible aspirin overdose but I really hope that came out well.”

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  • “Your poison control center can help you figure out when an overdose is severe.”

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  • “Prescription drug overdose is a problem not only with former WWE talent, but society as a whole according to the Centers for Disease Control, as it is the second leading cause of unintentional death (particularly among younger people) in the U.S.”

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  • “Instead of using large doses of pharmacological agents to inhibit or suppress symptoms, very small and specially prepared doses of medicinal substances are individually prescribed to a person for their unique ability to cause in overdose the similar symptoms that the sick person is having.”

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  • “Morbidity associated with theophylline overdose is usually caused by its severe effects on the cardiovascular and central nervous systems.”

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  • “His death initially believed to be related to his heart condition was later confirmed as a drug overdose from a mixture of heroin and cocaine.”

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  • “There was Jerry Felzberg, an ace tennis and chess player, dead of a heroin overdose shortly after we graduated from college.”

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  • dailyword House would do this sometimes with his Vicodin. Jun 13, 2012

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