overdose

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: o=ver=dose

CIDE DICTIONARY

overdose, v. t. 

 To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.  [1913 Webster]

overdose, n. 

 Too great a dose; an excessive dose.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

overdose, n. & v.
--n. an excessive dose (of a drug etc.).
--v.tr. give an excessive dose of (a drug etc.) or to (a person).

Derivative

overdosage n.

THESAURUS

overdose

OD, allay, avalanche, bag, bang, be brought down, be felled, be prodigal with, be struck down, be traumatized, booster, booster dose, booster shot, break out, catch, catch cold, cloy, cloyer, collapse, come down with, contract, cram, deck, deluge, dose, draft, dropping, drug packet, embarras de richesses, engorge, engulf, enough, erupt, extravagance, extravagancy, fever, fill, fill up, fix, flood, flood the market, get, glut, go into shock, gorge, hit, injection, inundate, inundation, jade, landslide, lavishness, mainlining, money to burn, more than enough, narcotic shot, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overequip, overfeed, overfill, overfurnish, overgorge, overlavish, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, oversaturate, oversell, overstock, overstuff, oversufficiency, oversupply, overwhelm, pall, plenty, plethora, popping, portion, potion, prodigality, redundancy, run a temperature, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, shot, sicken, sickener, skin-popping, slake, spate, stuff, superabundance, superflux, supersaturate, surfeit, surfeiter, swamp, take, take ill, warmed-over cabbage, whelm

ROGET THESAURUS

overdose

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.

VB superabound, overabound, know no bounds, swarm, meet one at every turn, creep with, crawl with, bristle with, overflow, run over, flow over, well over, brim over, run riot, overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark, surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood, drug, drug the market, hepatize, choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate, pile up, lay on thick, impregnate with, lavish, send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, pisces natare docere, kill the slain, gild refined gold, gild the lily, butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon, employ a steam engine to crack a nut, exaggerate, wallow in roll in, remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.