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/ˈoʊvərdˌoʊs/ Listen

noun

Overdose n. Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

verb

Overdose v. t. To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

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"Overdose" Quotes from Famous Books

... this testimony, and the board of pardons decided that the husband had died from an overdose of arsenic taken by himself and of his own accord. The wife was immediately pardoned. How is she ever to obtain satisfaction for her fifteen years of intense suffering. The great State of Kansas should pension this poor woman, who now is scarcely able to ...

— The Twin Hells • John N. Reynolds

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... are women, and also men, to whom emotion acts like an overdose of a drug. Parenthetically, emotion and certain drugs have very similar effects. No matter how joyous the occasion and how exuberant their joy, a mood may settle into their lives like a fog and obscure everything. This mood may arise from the ...

— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson

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... to keep on refusing friends," said the captain, making amends for his harshness by pouring a serious overdose of whisky into Mr. Chalk's glass, "and it's only natural for you to be anxious about it, so I removed the temptation ...

— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

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... adventure left no pleasant memories. He was sick for several days from his overdose of salt water, weak and nervous from fright and shock: there was a bruise over his eye from the saving impact of Dan's sturdy fist, which he resented unreasonably. More than all, he resented the chorus that went up from all at Killykinick in praise ...

— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman

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... words again—useless as they might be—when, by and by, a messenger came hurrying to the house with the news that Mrs. Romaine had been found dead that morning—dead, from an overdose of the chloral which she kept beside her for sleeplessness. And so the life of false aims and perverted longings came to ...

— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

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