overdose

over- +‎ dose

overdose (plural overdoses)

1. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

   die of a heroin overdose

overdose (third-person singular simple present overdoses, present participle overdosing, simple past and past participle overdosed)

1. (intransitive) To dose excessively, to take an overdose.

   Be careful not to overdose on those pills.

   She overdosed on cocaine.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To indulge in something excessively.
   • 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     They still had Sergio Agüero to bring off the bench and the Etihad was overdosing on optimism. For the game to finish with an aggregate 5-1 score distorts the fact the occasion was full of drama and suspense until Salah’s goal conclusively changed the complexion of the evening.

3. (transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

• OD
• overdoser

• overdosage

• does over, overdoes

Borrowed from English overdose.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.vɛʁ.doz/

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overdose f (plural overdoses)

1. (medicine) overdose

• “overdose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English overdose.

overdose f (invariable)

1. (medicine) overdose

• doverose

Borrowed from English overdose.

overdose m (definite singular overdosen, indefinite plural overdoser, definite plural overdosene)

1. an overdose

• “overdose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English overdose.

overdose m (definite singular overdosen, indefinite plural overdosar, definite plural overdosane)

1. an overdose

• “overdose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English overdose.

• Rhymes: -ɔzi

overdose f (plural overdoses)

1. overdose (excessive and dangerous dose of a drug)

• superdose, sobredose

overdose

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of overdosar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of overdosar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of overdosar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of overdosar