overeat

present singular third person overeats · participle present overeating · past overate · participle past overeaten · alternative over-eat

1. intransitiveTo eat too much.First known use 16th c.
2. ambitransitiveTo eat too much of.

   Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles.

   2019, Alberto Villoldo, Grow a New Body, page 66

   Synonyms: overconsume

3. datedreflexiveTo surfeit with eating.First known use 17th c.

   Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.

   1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 255

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   At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]

   1896, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art