an overdose of a drug, especially a fatal one.
a person who has taken an overdose of a drug, especially one who has become seriously ill or has died from such an overdose.
to take an overdose of a drug.
to die from an an overdose of a drug.
to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.
olive drab.
on demand.
outside diameter.
Doctor of Optometry.
Old Dutch.
(of a military uniform) olive drab.
ordinary seaman.
outside diameter.
overdraft.
overdrawn.
Officer of the Day
Old Dutch
ordnance datum
outside diameter
Also: o.d.. military olive drab
Also: O/D. banking
on demand
overdraft
overdrawn
What else does OD mean? OD is short for overdose, or taking so much of a drug that it harms or kills you. How is OD pronounced?[ oh-dee ]What are other forms of OD?O. D.
First recorded in 1840–50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869), German scientist
First recorded in 1590–1600
First recorded in 1955–60
From Latin oculus dexter
From Latin oculus dexter
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In March o.d. will be either enormously distended with eggs, or large, flabby, and empty, and ov. will be small and brownish, without any large eggs; the ovary gradually recovers its size through the summer.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Oxfordshire, on river Cherwell, drainage N. to S. Altitudes: river level, 300 o.d.; the Cross, 331; high town, 424.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin
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