overdose

An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.

Noun

An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug.
- to die of a heroin overdose
- It works for a while, but when Spider-Man maneuvers him ouside the hospital room where Harry is recovering from his overdose, some part of the Goblin's brain that's still the loving father surfaces, drives him...
- Drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in West Virginia, and the state leads the country in fatal drug overdoses. OxyContin—nicknamed “hillbilly heroin”—is king. - [2012 August 23, Conor Friedersdorf,...

From over- + dose.

To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to someone.
To dose excessively, to take an overdose.
- Be careful not to overdose on those pills.
- She overdosed on cocaine.
To indulge in something excessively.
- They still had Sergio Agüero to bring off the bench and the Etihad was overdosing on optimism. For the game to finish with an aggregate 5-1 score distorts the fact the occasion was full of drama and suspense until...
- Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later. - 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191: