English-Spanish translations for overdose

• sobredosis
  En algunos países, el consumo de drogas por vía parenteral ha disminuido y el tratamiento médico en caso de sobredosis ha mejorado. Injecting drugs has decreased in some countries and medical treatment of overdoses has improved.
  El número de muertes por sobredosis en la Unión Europea es de unas 7 000 anuales. The reported number of deaths related to drug overdose in the European Union is approximately 7 000 per year.
  En los dos últimos años, han muerto por sobredosis más de 40 «nordistas» en los propios Países Bajos. In the last two years, more than 40 people from the Department of Nord have died of an overdose in the Netherlands.

Definition of overdose

• An excessive and dangerous dose of a drug
• To dose excessively, to take an overdose
• To indulge in something excessively
• To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to

Examples

• die of a heroin overdose.
• Be careful not to overdose on those pills.
• She overdosed on cocaine.

Related words

• overdo
• overdone
• overdoor
• overdoing
• overdosage
• overdominance