overdosing
overdosing is the present participle and gerund of overdose.
Meaning of overdose
Verb
overdose (third-person singular simple present overdoses, present participle overdosing, simple past and past participle overdosed)
- 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.
- 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 Salah’s goal conclusively changed the complexion of the evening.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)
Noun
overdosing (plural overdosings)
- An excessively large dose.
- Much information of this kind lay ready to his hand in the narratives of poisonings and overdosings contained in medical literature.1873, Monthly Homoeopathic Review, volume 17, page 690
Forms of overdosing
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Questions about overdosing
- What does overdosing mean?
- Overdosing means an excessively large dose.
- What is overdosing the present participle and gerund of?
- Overdosing is the present participle and gerund of overdose.
- What part of speech is overdosing?
- Overdosing is a noun.
- What is the plural of overdosing?
- The plural of overdosing is overdosings.
Words near overdosing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdosing (page history and authors); overdose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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