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Oversleep   Listen
verb
Oversleep  v. i.  (past & past part. overslept; pres. part. oversleeping)  To sleep too long.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Oversleep" Quotes from Famous Books



... door barred and bolted again! Am I not to have an atom of breakfast, because I just happened to oversleep myself? The mornings get darker and darker; it is almost impossible to ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... taken the precaution of asking Chatty to wake me the next morning. I had slept little the previous night, and was afraid that I might oversleep myself in consequence. It was rather a trial when her touch roused me out of a delicious dream; but one glance at Gladys's pale face made me ashamed of my indolence. I dressed myself as quickly as I could, and then looked ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey



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