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overeat

English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ eat.

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

  1. (intransitive) To eat too much. [from 16th c.]
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To eat too much of.
    Synonym: overconsume
    • 2019, Alberto Villoldo, Grow a New Body, page 66:
      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.
  3. (reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating. [from 17th c.]
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 255:
      Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.
    • 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," […]

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  • → Korean: 오바이트하다 (obaiteuhada, “to vomit”)

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