Associations to the word «Overdose»

Wiktionary

OVERDOSE, noun. An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
OVERDOSE, verb. (intransitive) To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
OVERDOSE, verb. (transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

Dictionary definition

OVERDOSE, verb. Dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats