overdosed
past simple and past participle ofoverdose
overdose
verb[I]
uk/ˈəʊ.və.dəʊs/us/ˈoʊ.vɚ.doʊs/(informalOD)
to take too much of adrug:
She overdosedonaspirinanddied.
humorous
to have too much of something:
IthinkI've just overdosedoncheesecake!
Drugs - general words
- abstinence
- abstinence-only
- bindle
- biosimilar
- chase
- medicament
- multidrug
- non-intoxicant
- non-intoxicating
- nondrug
- peddler
- push
- shoot
- snort
- spliff
- spliff up
- substance
- substance abuse
- whacked
- wiped out
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Too much and unnecessary
Examplesofoverdosed
overdosed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
All through the night the slow melancholy wail of ambulance sirens bears testament to a steady flow of unconscious, dehydrated, exhausted, oroverdosedbodies.
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Immediately after the animals wereoverdosedwith sodium pentobarbital (50 -100 mg 0 kg) by other investigators, the eyes were enucleated and hemisected.
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I have, perhaps,overdosedon drugs strategies in the past few years.
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That might encourage people whose friends haveoverdosedon the premises to remove the body to avoid prosecution.
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I do not think that they areoverdosedwith original sin and want to do us down.
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I also understand from two different sources that one prisoneroverdosedon those drugs and from another source that two prisoners overdosed on those drugs.
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Nervousness and dizziness can arise from the excitation of the central nervous system, which may lead to respiratory failure ifoverdosed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its main focus is on drugs with a narrow therapeutic range, i.e. drugs that can easily be under- oroverdosed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is speculated that he wasoverdosedwith drugs and harmed by the many cures that were used at the time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He could no longer extract himself from this debilitating depression andoverdosedon sleeping pills.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Alloverdosedpatients should be conveyed to a hospital immediately for assessment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sheoverdosedagain but survived without seeking medical treatment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some patients areoverdosedwhile others are underdosed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Viciousoverdosedat midnight, but everyone who was there that night worked together to get him up and walking around in order to revive him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He finds her dead in the bathroom after sheoverdosedon drugs.
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