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- [noun oh-ver-dohs; verb oh-ver-dohs, oh-ver-dohs]
- /noun ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs; verb ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs, ˌoʊ vərˈdoʊs/
- /ˈəʊ.və.dəʊs/
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- [noun oh-ver-dohs; verb oh-ver-dohs, oh-ver-dohs]
- /noun ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs; verb ˈoʊ vərˌdoʊs, ˌoʊ vərˈdoʊs/
Definitions of overdose word
- noun overdose An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug. 1
- noun overdose too much of a drug 1
- noun overdose too much of sth 1
- intransitive verb overdose drug: take fatal amount 1
- intransitive verb overdose drug: take fatal amount of 1
- intransitive verb overdose drug: take harmful amount 1
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Origin of overdose
First appearance:
before 1680 One of the 48% oldest English words
First recorded in 1680-90; over- + dose
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Parts of speech for Overdose
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
overdose popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
Synonyms for overdose
verb overdose
- stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- gratify — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- indulge — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- nauseate — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- sate — to cause to sit; seat (often followed by down): Sit yourself down. He sat me near him.
noun overdose
- exuberance — The quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.
- overkill — the capacity of a nation to destroy, by nuclear weapons, more of an enemy than would be necessary for a military victory.
- surplus — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
Antonyms for overdose
verb overdose
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
- diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
- fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
noun overdose
- insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
- lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
- need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
- want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
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