What does overdose mean?
Definitions for overdose
ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs; ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs, ˌoʊ vərˈdoʊsover·dose
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Princeton's WordNet
overdose, o.d.verb
dose too heavily
"The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room"
Wiktionary
overdosenoun
An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
die of a heroin overdose
overdoseverb
To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Overdose
ō-vėr-dōs′, v.t. to dose overmuch.—n. an excessive dose.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Overdose
An accidental or deliberate dose of a medication or street drug that is in excess of what is normally used.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of overdose in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of overdose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of overdose in a Sentence
We've always said the case actually is an involuntary manslaughter (case) -- that it was an accidental overdose and a subsequent panic and a failure to call 911, i think she has tremendous amount of relief that this ordeal is closing.
This is a drug that kills indiscriminately, addiction itself is a disease that changes the chemistry of the brain, and it changes it irreparably. … So now, we may be facing not only overdose deaths — what we're doing is we're creating a mental health and substance abuse problem in a generation that will have to be fought hard for the entire lifetime of that individual and the entire lifetime of a generation, so allowing the circumstances to make it so much easier for this to occur is tragic.
It takes very little for someone to overdose on it, to cause the level of respiratory depression that would cause you to die.
There are some people like Carly who can actually stop all the opioids they're on, and it's safer; you can't die from cannabis, but many people in this country die every year from an opioid overdose.
We have the increase in United States. We have six of the 10 leading causes of death showing decreases, the overdose report showing a decrease in drug overdose deaths and infant mortality going down also.
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- جرعة مفرطةArabic
- předávkovatCzech
- ÜberdosisGerman
- superdozoEsperanto
- sobredosisSpanish
- yliannos, ottaa liikaaFinnish
- surdoser, surdose, surdosage, overdoseFrench
- túladagolHungarian
- overdoseItalian
- 過剰摂取, オーバードースJapanese
- ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿದ ಪ್ರಮಾಣKannada
- 과다 복용Korean
- doseLatin
- overdosisDutch
- overdose, superdosePortuguese
- supradozăRomanian
- передозировкаRussian
- överdosera, överdosSwedish
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