Meaning

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

    dose too heavily

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

    Be careful not to overdose on those pills.

    She overdosed on cocaine.

    überdosieren

    передози́роватьperedozírovatʹ

    передозо́вуватиperedozóvuvaty, передозува́тиperedozuváty

  3. (figuratively, intransitive)To indulge in something excessively.

Examples

64 sentences
  1. Tom died of a drug overdose.

    Том помер від передозування наркотиків.

    ruТом умер от передозировки наркотиков.

    deTom starb an einer Überdosis Drogen.

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  2. Tom died from a drug overdose.

    Том помер від передозування наркотиків.

    ruТом умер от передозировки наркотиков.

    deTom starb an einer Überdosis Drogen.

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  3. Tom died of a heroin overdose.

    ruТом умер от передозировки героина.

    deTom starb an einer Überdosis Heroin.

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  4. Tom took an overdose of sleeping pills.

    deTom nahm eine Überdosis Schlaftabletten.

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  5. Tom died from an overdose of sleeping pills.

    ruТом умер от передозировки снотворного.

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to dose excessively:
Русский
By meaning 1
to dose excessively:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to dose excessively:

Origin

From over- + dose.

From over- + dose.

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Forms

overdoses, overdosing, overdosed, overdosed
Base formoverdose · to overdose
3rd person singularoverdoses
Present participleoverdosing
Past simpleoverdosed
Past participleoverdosed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverdose
he, she, itoverdoses

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverdosed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overdosed
he, she, ithas overdosed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overdose

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • dose too heavily:o.d.

Word family

2 related words
Relatedoverdosage
Derivedoverdoser

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overdose — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto