overeat

Etymology

over- + eat

verb

  1. (intransitive) To eat too much.
  2. (reflexive, dated) 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

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