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over-eat

over-eat is the alternative form of overeat.

Meaning of overeat

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To eat too much.
  2. (ambitransitive) To eat too much of.
    • 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.2019, Alberto Villoldo, Grow a New Body, page 66
    Synonyms:
    overconsume
  3. (dated, reflexive) To surfeit with eating.
    • Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 255

Forms of over-eat

third-person singular presentover-eats
present participleover-eating
pastover-ate
past participleover-eaten

Questions about over-eat

What is over-eat the alternative form of?
Over-eat is the alternative form of overeat.

Words near over-eat in the dictionary

  1. over-diversified
  2. over-diversifies
  3. over-diversify
  4. over-diversifying
  5. over-dressed
  6. over-eat
  7. over-educate
  8. over-educated
  9. over-educates
  10. over-educating
  11. over-education

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-eat (page history and authors); overeat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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