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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overdose
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug overdose (=taking too much of a drug at one time)
▪ She died from a drug overdose.
took...overdose
▪ She took an overdose after a row with her boyfriend.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose.
▪ They stamp out graffiti, quash drug deals, bust carjacking rings, rescue drug overdose victims, even prevent suicides.
▪ Finally, the patient himself asked that the doctors kill him: they did so - through a drugs overdose.
▪ One boy died in a mysterious fire, another of a drug overdose.
▪ Soon after that, she ended up in hospital after a drug overdose.
▪ A full inquiry has been launched to find out how Newall, 27, was able to take a drugs overdose.
▪ Since 1980 the number of drug overdose deaths has increased by 540 %.
▪ He was working with the Woody Herman band at the time of his death following a drug overdose.
■ VERB
die
▪ His daughter had died of an overdose of drugs three years before.
▪ Lymon died from a heroin overdose, Garnes during heart surgery and Negroni from a stroke.
▪ And if the clients died of an overdose of bullets, he was not too proud to go to their funerals.
▪ During his absence from home one night, she died of an overdose of laudanum.
▪ Had a brother who died of an overdose.
take
▪ First, many patients in hospital have taken overdoses or injured themselves in the past.
▪ At the age of 20 she took an overdose when she thought a boyfriend was about to desert her.
▪ The resulting frustration may be, inpart, why they have taken an overdose.
▪ In addition there was a small risk of her taking an overdose.
▪ She mentioned the dashing don in a note found in the room where she took an overdose of pain-killers.
▪ He reportedly told police who questioned him after the school attack that he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers.
▪ The chronic repeater Patients who repeatedly take overdoses pose considerable management difficulties.
▪ What to do if some one takes an overdose 1.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an overdose of soap operas
▪ The 18-year-old male died of an overdose of sleeping pills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Acute cocaine overdose may occur at any stage if a package bursts.
▪ First, many patients in hospital have taken overdoses or injured themselves in the past.
▪ For small children, an overdose can result from swallowing as few as three vitamins with iron.
▪ His daughter had died of an overdose of drugs three years before.
▪ Moon died in 1978, after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism.
▪ No hypnotic was prescribed in view of the risk of a further overdose.
▪ Sister Aimee died in 1944, from an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets.
▪ The hospital subsequently discovered that her death was the result of a massive overdose of a powerful anticancer drug.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Be careful, however, not to overdose on blue.
▪ People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each.
▪ Right now, he was overdosing on both.
▪ Some one who thinks he is taking the herbal product but is instead using the illegal Ecstasy could overdose, Green said.
▪ Texas banned the sale of ephedrine to minors after ten teenagers were taken to emergency rooms after overdosing on the drug.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overdose

Overdose \O`ver*dose"\, v. t. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

Overdose

Overdose \O"ver*dose`\, n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overdose

1700, "an excessive dose," from over- + dose (n.).

overdose

1727, "to administer medicine in too large a dose" (transitive); from 1968 as "to take an overdose of drugs;" see over- + dose (v.). Related: Overdosed; overdosing.

Wiktionary
overdose

n. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To dose excessively, to take an overdose. 2 (context transitive English) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

WordNet
overdose

v. dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room" [syn: o.d.]

Wikipedia
Overdose (disambiguation)

Drug overdose is the ingestion or application of a medication in quantities greater than are recommended.

Overdose may also refer to:

Overdose (horse)

Overdose (2 April 2005 in Nottinghamshire, Great Britain – 1 July 2015 in Germany) was a Hungarian Thoroughbred racehorse. During his career he was victorious in sixteen of his nineteen races. [[|

Overdose in Budapest 2008 Foto:Judit Seipert

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Overdose (EP)

Overdose is the second EP (third EP overall) by South Korean-Chinese boy bands EXO-K and EXO-M, released by S.M. Entertainment and distributed by KT Music on May 7, 2014. It is preceded by their special EP album " Miracles in December" released in December 2013. This is the final release that includes members Kris and Luhan before they left the group and filed lawsuits against S.M. Entertainment requesting contract termination.

Overdose (album)

Overdose is a 1994 album by Pizzicato Five. It was their first full-length album after parting with founding member K-Taro Takanami. Setting a trend that would exist in later Pizzicato Five albums, Overdose is themed around a famous city, in this case New York City. Musically, the album delves in soul music, containing several references to Stevie Wonder, most prominently the harmonica solo of "On the Sunny Side of the Street". Overdose produced three singles: " Happy Sad", " Superstar" and " On The Sunny Side Of The Street". The song "Airplane" was later redone on the 1996 EP Sister Freedom Tapes, titled as "Airplane 96". Several tracks from Overdose appeared on the 1995 compilation album The Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five.

Overdose (Ciara song)

"Overdose" is a song recorded by American singer Ciara for her self-titled fifth studio album (2013). It was written by Josh Abraham, Oliver Goldstein, Ali Tamposi, Olivia Waithe and Ciara, while its production was handled by the former two. Ciara and Kuk Harrell were responsible for the song's vocal production. Notable for its shift from her more contemporary R&B sound towards a predominantly pop-orientated vocal style for the singer, "Overdose" served as a product of Ciara's experimentation and was recognized as the purest pop track on Ciara. An uptempo dance-pop, electropop and nu-disco song, its "club-friendly" production comprises rupturing synths and gritty, automatic beats. Its lyrical content act as an ode to codependency and are based on the subject of unhealthy infatuation.

"Overdose" initially leaked as an extended snippet on July 17, 2012, and then in full in June 2013. The song was originally recognized as a "fan favorite", before garnering favorable reviews from music critics, some of which went on to publish campaigns for the track be released as a single. Its accompanying artwork features Ciara's then-fiancé Future and resulted in widespread media attention for its provocative imagery. Though the song impacted urban contemporary and rhythmic contemporary radio in the United States—on September 18 and October 15, 2013, respectively—it failed to receive a full-scale single release, when its digital release was later cancelled and its accompanying music video and promotional performances failed to materialize. As a result, "Overdose" failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 and garner success commercially.

Usage examples of "overdose".

Some of these responses might occur in an allergic reaction, but not from an overdose, and Jeffrey had reason to believe that Patty Owen had not been allergic to Marcaine.

For the girls left next to roadways, an overdose of benzodiazepine, the prescription drug Ativan.

Latter dies of an overdose of morphia administered in her after-dinner coffee.

Carl Newsome might not have received an overdose when they were dishing out brains, but when they added the guts and aggressiveness, they spilled quite a lot extra.

Amber Dawn, aka Dawn Brunetta, born Judy Rosen, had died of a speedball overdose in Burbank in 1996.

I metamorphosized her from a Dead on Arrival overdose to a puking hysterical underdose, TURFED to Jeff Cohen.

Slaves, created by the sponge, by the underdoses and overdoses of the mutant disease.

Hillary Slater died from an overdose of Warfarin, resulting in a hemorrhage from her uterus.

Gray filled out the death certificate, changing the last entry as to cause of death from obstetrical hemorrhage to Warfarin overdose.

Conclusion: cardiopulmonary arrest, most likely due to barbiturate overdose.

Quite possibly the fumes of his strange concoction, together with an overdose of aspirin invigorated by the reaction of much raw liquor, were sufficient to create a fluoroscopic man instead of a fluoroscopic film.

Print news in the era of the nonreader whose concept of news is what rock star overdosed on what this morning.

That mimics a Coumadin overdose on testing, and phytonadione will shore up the effectiveness of the bit you have.

Benny had put in a call to J earlier about the overdose at the Silverleaf, and when I called, J told me to get on down to the office.

An overdose causes respiratory failure, which begins with a heaviness of eyelids, difficulty in swallowing, paralysis of the extremities and the diaphragm, a crushing substernal pain, and ends in circulatory collapse, and death.