oversleep

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈəʊvərˌsliːp/

Verb

oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)

1. (intransitive) To sleep for longer than planned.

   I overslept and was late for school.

2. (transitive) To sleep beyond.

   to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Related terms

• sleep in
• sleep it out

Translations

to sleep for longer than planned

• Arabic: استغرق في النوم (ar) (istághraqa fi al-nawm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡過頭 (cmn), 睡过头 (cmn) (shuìguòtóu)

• Czech: zaspat (cs)
• Dutch: zich verslapen (nl)
• German: verschlafen (de)
• Icelandic: sofa yfir sig (is)
• Japanese: 寝過ごす (ja) (ねすごす, nesugosu), 寝坊する (ja) (ねぼうする, nebō-surú)

• Polish: zaspać (pl)
• Russian: проспать (ru) (prospát')  pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: преспавати

  Roman: prespavati

• Spanish: quedarse dormido
• Swedish: försova (sv) sig
• Turkish: uyuyakalmak (tr)

Anagrams

• sleepover