oversedate
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oversedate (third-person singular simple present oversedates, present participle oversedating, simple past and past participle oversedated)
- (transitive) To sedate excessively.
- 2008 March 6, Sarah Kershaw, “My Root Canal? It’s a Blur”, in New York Times[1]:
- But the practice has drawn mounting criticism from doctors and dentists who say it poses a dangerous risk of patients being oversedated by dentists who often have completed only a 24-hour training course and are not equipped to safely monitor the drugs.