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
   • At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]1896, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art