noun, verb
noun too much of a drug taken at one time:
a drug / drugs overdose * She took a massive overdose of sleeping pills.
verb (also informal OD) [V] ~ (on sth) to take too much of a drug at one time, so that it is dangerous:
He had overdosed on heroin.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overdose is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does overdose appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — overdose appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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