an excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic
If someone takes an overdose of a drug, they take more of it than is safe. Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15-19 takes an overdose
The condition that results when too much of a drug is taken, making a person sick or unconscious and sometimes resulting in death
You can refer to too much of something, especially something harmful, as an overdose. An overdose of sun, sea, sand and chlorine can give lighter hair a green tinge
dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room"
ingestion of a life-threatening or lethal dose of drugs, often associated with the use of psychoactive drugs
You can say that someone overdoses on something if they have or do too much of it. The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design. OD to take too much of a drug at one time, so that it harms you or kills you overdose on
If someone overdoses on a drug, they take more of it than is safe. He'd overdosed on heroin Medical opinion varies on how many tablets it takes to overdose
{f} take an exaggerated amount of medicine or drugs; prescribe an excessive amount of medicine or drugs