overdose
verb
1 overdose
Dose too heavily:
— The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room.
synonym: o.d..
Roget 641:
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
etc.
(go beyond)
303;
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
etc.
(squander)
818.
send coals to Newcastle,
carry coals to Newcastle,
carry owls to Athens†;
teach one's grandmother to suck eggs;
pisces natare docere [Lat.];
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
etc.
(waste)
638.
exaggerate
etc.
549;
wallow in
roll in
etc.
(plenty)
639;
remain on one's hands,
hang heavy on hand,
go a begging.
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Dutch: overdosis, overdoseren
noun
Roget 641:
redundancy,
redundance†;
too much,
too many;
superabundance,
superfluity,
superfluence†,
saturation;
nimiety†,
transcendency,
exuberance,
profuseness;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
repletion,
enough in all conscience,
satis superque [Lat.],
lion's share;
more than enough
etc.
639;
plethora,
engorgement,
congestion,
load,
surfeit,
sickener†;
turgescence
etc.
(expansion)
194†;
overdose,
overmeasure†,
oversupply,
overflow;
inundation
etc.
(water)
348;
avalanche.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
heap
etc.
72;
drug,
drug in the market;
glut;
crowd;
burden.
excess;
surplus,
overplus†;
epact†;
margin;
remainder
etc.
40;
duplicate;
surplusage†,
expletive;
work of supererogation;
bonus,
bonanza.
luxury;
intemperance
etc.
954;
extravagance
etc.
(prodigality)
818;
exorbitance,
lavishment†.
pleonasm
etc.
(diffuseness)
573;
too many irons in the fire;
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
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