overdose
/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdəʊs/verb3 syllables
Overdose means: dose too heavily.
Synonyms for overdose2
verb, as in dose too heavily
o.d.
What does overdose mean?1
verb
1
dose too heavily“The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Overdose in a sentence
- I've never done heroin, but my childhood friend just died of an overdose.shekitten
- Don't take more than the label says, or you could overdose.DJ_Saidez
- Dalida died from an overdose of sleeping pills.shekitten
- The overdose scared me into taking better care of myself.shekitten
- Ivan died due to an overdose of drugs.Amastan
- Dan's autopsy revealed that he died from an overdose.Amastan
- America is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic.Hybrid
- Layla died of a drug overdose in the woods behind her house.OsoHombre
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of overdose
as a verb
- past tense
- overdosed
- present participle
- overdosing
- third-person singular
- overdoses
- past participle
- overdosed