overeat

English

Alternative forms

over-eat

Etymology

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈit/
Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

overeat (third-person singular simple present overeats, present participle overeating, simple past overate, past participle overeaten)

(intransitive) To eat too much.
(reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating.
- 1896, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
  At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]

Translations

eat too much

Catalan: sobremenjar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吃得過多, 吃得过多 (chī de guòduō), 暴食 (zh) (bàoshí)
Dutch: overeten (nl)
Finnish: ylensyödä
French: trop manger, se suralimenter (fr)

German: sich überessen
Italian: mangiare troppo
Japanese: 過食する (かしょくする, kashoku suru), 暴食する (ぼうしょくする, bōshoku suru), 食べ過ぎる (たべすぎる, tabesugiru)
Maori: pūponga
Portuguese: empachar (pt)
Russian: объеда́ться (ru) impf (obʺjedátʹsja), объе́сться (ru) pf (obʺjéstʹsja); перееда́ть (ru) impf (perejedátʹ), перее́сть (ru) pf (perejéstʹ)

Anagrams

overate, toreave

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