overeat

English

Alternative forms

• over-eat

Etymology

over- +‎ eat

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To eat too much.
2. (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, 吃得过多 (chī de guòduō), 暴食 (zh) (bàoshí)

• Dutch: overeten (nl)
• Finnish: ylensyödä (fi)
• French: trop manger, se suralimenter (fr)
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• German: sich überessen (de)
• 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)
• Spanish: empacharse (es)

See also

• pack on the pounds
• obesity

Anagrams

• overate, toreave