[
US
/ˈoʊvɝˌdoʊs/
]
[ UK /ˈəʊvədˌəʊz/ ]
[ UK /ˈəʊvədˌəʊz/ ]
VERB
-
dose too heavily
The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room
How To Use overdose In A Sentence
- Therefore, in the case of acute overdose, gastric lavage or induced emesis should be utilized to remove unabsorbed lithium.
- Someone had slipped a massive overdose of chloral hydrate into the bottle. SKORPION'S DEATH
- Preliminary analysis: death from overdose of coldsleep drugs, combined with oxygen starvation and dehydration when cocoon failed to properly deploy. The City Who Fought
- Potential lethal cardiac arrhythmias and convulsions are recognised complications of both iatrogenic and self inflicted overdoses.
- Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose .
- She took an overdose a year ago. The Sun
- Adrian died of a heroin overdose which some of his friends thought was deliberate.
- They have no serious side-effects and cannot be given in overdose. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
- The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design.
- Caught in a whirlwind of high times, hard drugs and harder comedowns, the singer made a botched suicide attempt and began to overdose on a regular basis.