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单词 overdose
释义
overdose
(vəʳdoʊs )
Word forms: overdoses , overdosing , overdosed
1. countable noun [usually singular]
If someone takes an overdose of a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15–19 takes an overdose.
The band's guitarist died of a drug overdose.
2. verb
If someone overdoses on a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
He'd overdosed on heroin. [VERB + on]
Medical opinion varies on how many tablets it takes to overdose. [VERB]
3. countable noun [usually singular]
You can refer to too much of something, especially something harmful, as an overdose.
An overdose of sun, sea, sand and chlorine can give lighter hair a green tinge. [+ of]
4. verb
You can say that someone overdoses on something if they have or do too much of it.
The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design. [VERB + on]
...tourists that tend to overdose on the regional specialities of goose, duck and Armagnac. [VERB on noun]
[Also VERB]
Translations:
Chinese: 用药过量, 过量服用
Japanese: 過量服用, 過剰服用する
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