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/ˈoʊvərˈitɪŋ/ 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 'Overeating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overeating" Quotes from Famous Books

... two hours earlier and go for a brisk walk just after sunrise, and give up eating meat at tiffin, and confine myself to two or three dishes at dinner, I should be perfectly well in the course of a month; just as if I was in the habit of overeating myself, when I have scarcely the appetite of a sparrow. I told Captain Rintoul afterwards that I must consult someone else, for that really I could ...

— Rujub, the Juggler • G. A. Henty

... and was filled up with happiness because he had found again a human friend. As I discovered upon investigation, his prison had been the galley in which food for the crew had been cooked; and upon the odds and ends left there he had fared very well indeed—not overeating himself by gobbling down all his food in a hurry, and then dying of starvation, as a dog would have done, but temperately eating for his daily rations only what his sustenance required; and for drink ...

— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier

... his enemies. The barons pursued him, and he fell back on Lincoln from which as a centre he raided the surrounding country for more than a fortnight. On October 9, he marched eastwards again to Lynn which, like most of the towns, was favourable to him, and there he brought on a dysentery by overeating. From that time his physical decline was rapid. His violent passions, utterly unbridled, tore him to pieces more and more fiercely as he recognized his own loss of strength and learned of one misfortune after another. He would not rest, and he would not listen ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams