verb
Meaning 1
To eat too much.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
overeat
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˌoʊvɚˈit/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈiːt/
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rhymes with -iːt
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CMU ARPABET: OW1 V ER0 IY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To eat too much of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overconsume
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To surfeit with eating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, reflexive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English eat English overeat From over- + eat.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: преяждам (prejaždam) — eat too much
- Catalan: sobremenjar — eat too much
- Chinese Mandarin: 吃得過多 /吃得过多 (chī de guòduō) — eat too much
- Chinese Mandarin: 暴食 (bàoshí) — eat too much
- Czech: přejídat se — eat too much
- Czech: přejíst se — eat too much
- Dutch: overeten — eat too much
- Finnish: ylensyödä — eat too much
- French: trop manger — eat too much
- French: se suralimenter — eat too much
- Galician: empachar — eat too much
- German: sich überessen — eat too much
- Italian: mangiare troppo — eat too much
- Japanese: 過食する (kashoku suru) — eat too much
- Japanese: 暴食する (bōshoku suru) — eat too much
- Japanese: 食べ過ぎる (tabesugiru) — eat too much
- Korean: 과식하다 (gwasikhada) — eat too much
- Māori: pūponga — eat too much
- Polish: przejadać się — eat too much
- Polish: przejeść się — eat too much
- Portuguese: empachar — eat too much
- Russian: объеда́ться (obʺjedátʹsja) — eat too much
- Russian: объе́сться (obʺjéstʹsja) — eat too much
- Russian: перееда́ть (perejedátʹ) — eat too much
- Russian: перее́сть (perejéstʹ) — eat too much
- Spanish: empacharse — eat too much
- Swedish: föräta — eat too much
- Ukrainian: об'їда́тися (obʺjidátysja) — eat too much
- Ukrainian: об'ї́стися (obʺjístysja) — eat too much
- Ukrainian: переїда́ти (perejidáty) — eat too much
- Ukrainian: переї́сти (perejísty) — eat too much