overdose

overdose
   an attempt at suicide by selfpoisoning with drugs
   Medical jargon, whether the protagonist fails or succeeds, and often abbreviated to OD, which may refer either to the attempt or to the person who makes it:
    She's a person, not a goddamned 0D\ (Clancy, 1989 — she had attempted to kill herself)

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  • overdose — [ ɔvɶrdoz; ɔvɛrdoz ] n. f. • 1968; mot angl., de over « excessif » et dose empr. au fr. ♦ Anglic. Dose excessive d une drogue dure. ⇒ surdose(recomm. offic.). Mort par overdose. Être en overdose. Fig. ⇒ excès. « comme écœuré par une overdose d… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Overdose — (engl. ‚Überdosis‘, siehe Vergiftung) bezeichnet: Overdose (Album), ein Album der japanischen Popgruppe Pizzicato Five von 1994 Overdose (Band), eine ehemalige brasilianische Thrash Metal Band Overdose (Pferd), ein Rennpferd Siehe auch: Total… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Overdose — O ver*dose , v. t. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • overdose — DOZ/ s. n. doză excesivă (de medicamente, stupefiante etc). (< engl. overdose) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • overdose — ► NOUN ▪ an excessive and dangerous dose of a drug. ► VERB ▪ take an overdose. DERIVATIVES overdosage noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Overdose — O ver*dose , n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • overdose — index overload, surfeit Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • overdose — / oʊvədoʊs/, it. /over dɔze/ s. ingl. [comp. di over eccessivo e dose dose ], usato in ital. al femm., invar. 1. (farm.) [dose eccessiva (e talora fatale) di un farmaco, o più spesso di droga: morire per una o. di eroina ] ▶◀ ↓ dose. 2. (estens.) …   Enciclopedia Italiana

  • overdose — |ovadóze| s. f. Ver sobredose.   ‣ Etimologia: palavra inglesa …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

  • overdose — [ō′vər dōs΄; ] for v. [ ō΄vər dōs′, ō′vər dōs΄] n. too large a dose vt. overdosed, overdosing to dose to excess vi. 1. to take too large an amount of a narcotic, hallucinogen, etc.: often with on 2. Informal to experience too much of something:… …   English World dictionary

  • overdose — o|ver|dose1 [ˈəuvədəus US ˈouvərdous] n 1.) too much of a drug taken at one time overdose of ▪ a massive overdose of heroin ▪ She took an overdose and died two days later. 2.) too much of something, especially something harmful overdose of ▪ an… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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