overdose

English

Noun

overdose (plural overdoses)

1. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

   die of a heroin overdose

Translations

excessive and dangerous dose of a drug

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過量 (cmn), 过量 (cmn) (guòliàng)

• Finnish: yliannos (fi)
• French: surdose (fr) f, surdosage (fr) m, overdose (fr) f
• German: Überdosis (de) f
• Italian: overdose (it) f

• Japanese: オーバードース (ja) (ōbādōsu), 過剰摂取 (ja) (かじょうせっしゅ, kajō sesshu)
• Portuguese: sobredose (pt) f
• Russian: передозировка (ru) (peredoziróvka) f 
• Spanish: sobredosis (es) f

Verb

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

Derived terms

• OD
• overdoser

Related terms

• overdosage

Translations

to dose excessively

• Czech: předávkovat (cs)
• Finnish: ottaa liikaa (fi)

• French: surdoser (fr)

Anagrams

• does over
• overdoes

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French

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Etymology

Borrowing from English

Noun

overdose f (plural overdoses)

1. (medicine) overdose

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Italian

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Etymology

Borrowing from English

Noun

overdose f (plural overdosi) or invariable

1. (medicine) overdose

Anagrams

• doverose