Definitions for OD

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OD od

Spelling: [od, ohd]

IPA: /ɒd, oʊd/

Od is a 2 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 8 anagrams from letters in OD (do).

Definitions for OD

noun

1. a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
2. an overdose of a drug, especially a fatal one.
3. a person who has taken an overdose of a drug, especially one who has become seriously ill or has died from such an overdose.

interjection

1. a shortened form of “God” (used in euphemistically altered oaths).

verb (used without object)

1. to take an overdose of a drug.
2. to die from an an overdose of a drug.
3. to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.

Origin of OD

First recorded in 1840-50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869), German scientist

Examples for OD

I was resting on the od bunk, and Clay was standing beside me.

In a moment he replied, “od nyok” (two heads), and I handed over the coins.

od's will, have you nobody to put your gulls upon but knights?

That of the visit of Ulysses to the court of Autolycus, in od.

To what land was he taken, that his life might be saved from King Hĕr´od?

Thomas brought bedding from the od bunk and made me comfortable on the floor.

The od, a new imponderable, a sort of electricity, is perhaps nothing else.

Tibullus was on friendly terms with Horace, who addressed to him od.

He said, "od, it's a gude ane—the maist part of 300 a year."

Examples of imitation (which is commonest in Book i.) are: od.