overeat

• over-eat

over- +‎ eat

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈit/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

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

1. (intransitive) To eat too much. [from 16th c.]
2. (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.

3. (reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating. [from 17th c.]
   • 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," […]

• pack on the pounds
• obesity

• overate, toreave