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/ˈoʊvərˌit/ Listen

verb

Overeat v. t. & v. i. (past overate; past part. overeaten; pres. part. overeating)

To gnaw all over, or on all sides. (Obs.)

To eat to excess; sometimes with a reflexive; as, she overate at the party and spent the next week dieting.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overeat" Quotes from Famous Books

... himself, and made his preparation to escape. "Why she—oh, she ate goose. Goose is tenderer than turkey, anyway, and more digestible; and there isn't so much of it, and you can't overeat yourself, and have bad—" ...

— Christmas Every Day and Other Stories • W. D. Howells

... him. He was present at a public ball at York, which the lord mayor gave, danced Sir Roger de Coverley in the very same set with Rowena—(who was disgusted that Maid Marian took precedence of her)—he saw little Athelstane overeat himself at the supper and pledge his big father in a cup of sack; he met the Reverend Mr. Tuck at a missionary meeting, where he seconded a resolution proposed by that eminent divine;—in fine, he saw a ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... general collation, where great and small, globes and lexicons, philosophies and knick-knacks, will fly into your jaws—a good appetite to you, should it come to that.—Yet, ravenous wolf that you are! take care that you don't overeat yourself, and have to disgorge to a hair all that you have swallowed, as a certain Athenian (no particular friend ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller