Synonym: o.d.. Similar words: overdo, overdrive, overdue bill, dose, underdog, over and over, hunker down, over and over again. Meaning: ['əʊvə(r)dəʊs] v. dose too heavily.
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61. Four years ago, his sister Margaret died after taking a heroin overdose.
62. Although many patients are prescribed psychotropic medication, only a small proportion of these will go on to take an overdose.
63. When she refused he took an overdose of his barbiturate tablets in front of her.
64. And if the clients died of an overdose of bullets, he was not too proud to go to their funerals.
65. Because blood concentrations of most opiates are quite low even in overdose, screening is usually done on the urine.
66. The 37-year-old took an overdose of painkillers and lay in sub-zero conditions with just a sleeping bag.
67. If she died of a drug overdose, it will show up in the autopsy.
68. The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end.
69. Excess electrolytes are excreted through the urine, but it is not wise to overdose them.
70. Also, an overdose of barbiturates can severely depress the central nervous system and lead to death.
71. Deaths from paracetamol overdose are unnecessary, and efforts should be made to decrease this mortality.
72. One boy died in a mysterious fire, another of a drug overdose.
73. The conclusion is inescapable. This was an accidental drug overdose and not a suicide.
74. He got thrown out of the halfway house for an overdose.
75. He reportedly told police who questioned him after the school attack that he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers.
76. No hypnotic was prescribed in view of the risk of a further overdose.
77. Because of its wide use and toxicity at high concentrations, phenytoin is often the subject of overdose.
78. The resulting frustration may be, inpart,[www.Sentencedict.com] why they have taken an overdose.
79. In addition there was a small risk of her taking an overdose.
80. The other argument for prescribing serotonin reuptake inhibitors has been their reported lower toxicity in overdose compared with some antidepressants.
81. The motive force for this enthusiasm is not internationalism or an overdose of brotherly love, but the size of the market.
82. Some one who thinks he is taking the herbal product but is instead using the illegal Ecstasy could overdose, Green said.
83. Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose.
84. She mentioned the dashing don in a note found in the room where she took an overdose of pain-killers.
85. Lymon died from a heroin overdose, Garnes during heart surgery and Negroni from a stroke.
86. For small children, an overdose can result from swallowing as few as three vitamins with iron.
87. Time was also spent exploring the consequences of the overdose and finding alternative ways of coping with similar problems in the future.
88. During his absence from home one night, she died of an overdose of laudanum.
89. Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade.
90. They stamp out graffiti, quash drug deals, bust carjacking rings, rescue drug overdose victims, even prevent suicides.
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