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English
Etymology
From over- + eat.
Pronunciation
Verb
overeat (third-person singular simple present overeats, present participle overeating, simple past overate, past participle overeaten)
- (intransitive) To eat too much.
- (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.
- (reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating.
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," […]
Descendants
- → Korean: 오바이트하다 (obaiteuhada, “to vomit”)
Translations
eat too much
- Bulgarian: преяждам (bg) (prejaždam)
- Catalan: sobremenjar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 吃得過多 / 吃得过多 (chī de guòduō), 暴食 (zh) (bàoshí)
- Czech: přejídat se impf, přejíst se pf
- Dutch: overeten (nl)
- Finnish: ylensyödä (fi)
- French: trop manger, se suralimenter (fr)
- Galician: empachar
- German: sich überessen (de)
- Italian: mangiare troppo
- Japanese: 過食する (ja) (かしょくする, kashoku suru), 暴食する (ja) (ぼうしょくする, bōshoku suru), 食べ過ぎる (ja) (たべすぎる, tabesugiru)
- Korean: 과식하다 (gwasikhada)
- Maori: pūponga
- Polish: przejadać się impf, przejeść się pf
- Portuguese: empachar (pt)
- Russian: объеда́ться (ru) impf (obʺjedátʹsja), объе́сться (ru) pf (obʺjéstʹsja); перееда́ть (ru) impf (perejedátʹ), перее́сть (ru) pf (perejéstʹ)
- Spanish: empacharse (es)
- Swedish: föräta (sv)
- Ukrainian: об'їда́тися impf (obʺjidátysja), об'ї́стися pf (obʺjístysja), переїда́ти impf (perejidáty), переї́сти pf (perejísty)
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