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Past tense of overeat

irregular verb

The past tense of overeat is overate. The past participle is overeaten.

Forms of overeat

Base form (V1)overeat /ˌoʊvɚˈit/
Past tense (V2)overate /ˌoʊ.vɚˈeɪt/
Past participle (V3)overeaten /oʊ.vɚ.it.ən/
Present participleovereating
Third person singularovereats

Meaning of overeat

  1. verb To eat too much.
  2. verb To eat too much of.
  3. verb To surfeit with eating.

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Questions about the past tense of overeat

What is the past tense of overeat?
The past tense of overeat is overate.
What is the past participle of overeat?
The past participle of overeat is overeaten.
Is overeat a regular or irregular verb?
Overeat is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overeat (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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