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o|ver|pre|scribe
o|ver|pre|scribe «OH vuhr prih SKRYB», intransitive verb, transitive verb, -scribed, -scrib|ing.
to prescribe drugs, especially narcotics, in excess of the patient's actual need: »

When a doctor seems to be regularly overprescribing, he gets two warnings (Time). I cannot tolerate the overprescribing of unnecessary and expensive drugs (H. P. Bower).


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