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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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Etymology of 'Overeat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overeat" Quotes from Famous Books

... appliances of civilised life. The soldier on service, even in a desert, has a wonderful way of acquiring possessions, and every time we moved we were faced with the total loss of our dearest treasures. A heavy parcel mail usually arrived the day before, and we had to overeat ourselves or dump. Each company mess cherished a few bits of straw matting and some poles, found or stolen, with which they rigged up a precarious shelter wherein to eat their meals, sitting in state on sand-bag seats at a table of sand covered with a waterproof sheet. Must these be abandoned ...

— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison

... Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, ...

— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce