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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overeat
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsive gambling/overeating/spending etc
▪ Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards has become more common.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A woman who overeats during pregnancy can cause health problems for her child.
▪ Some people can overeat without putting on much weight.
▪ You need to watch your weight - have you been overeating?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if we overate on any one of them then any surplus energy would end up by making us fat.
▪ And one night, as we groan from overeating, she offers to teach me the pleasures of a fast.
▪ Apart from over-sleepiness, symptoms include: lethargy, overeating, depression, social problems and loss of libido.
▪ For others, it might mean therapy to root out the underlying causes of overeating.
▪ He looked at Angelina and overate, the right side of his. face ballooned like a heavyweight squirrel.
▪ Most other Western countries are overeating, and the developing countries are fast catching up.
▪ What made people overeat, she said, was insecurity and immaturity.
▪ You overeat, smoke, drink, bite your nails etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overeat

Overeat \O`ver*eat"\, v. t. & i.

  1. To gnaw all over, or on all sides. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. To eat to excess; -- sometimes with a reflexive; as, she overate at the party and spent the next week dieting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overeat

"to eat too much," 1590s, from over- + eat (v.). Related: Overate; overeating. Old English had oferæt (n.) "gluttony; oferæte (adj.) "gluttonous."

Wiktionary
overeat

vb. To eat too much.

WordNet
overeat

v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]

Usage examples of "overeat".

Yet you continue to overeat, indicating clearly that the physical sensation of ingestion outweighs the theoretical pleasure of improved appearance.

overeaters Anonymous suggests that most people who overeat constantly do not do so because it is pleasurable.

If a person overeats as a way of reducing anxiety about a love relationship, the relationship can be worked on, perhaps by talking, getting counseling, or joining a marriage enrichment group.

It was like she was absolved of overeating as long as she warned me against it.

I have made the simple act of overeating delicious food much too complicated.

This is the point, usually after successfully stopping smoking, drinking, avoiding studying, overeating, etc.

Besides, the art of burning to bedrock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with overeating and enforced idleness, and became as irritable as do the bees in the fall of the year when the hives are overstocked with honey.

They generally use overworking, overeating, or other addictions as a way to numb their unresolved painful feelings.

Nurse McKenzie sat beside me for a while and told me of a newly married friend of hers who went to a hypnotherapist to be cured of overeating and ended up having sex on the sofa with him and being charged double, which posthypnotic suggestion made her pay without argument.

If a person overeats as a way of reducing anxiety about a love relationship, the relationship can be worked on, perhaps by talking, getting counseling, or joining a marriage enrichment group.

Overeating can develop into frequent recurrent Overeating episodes called Binge Eating Disorder.

Farrell found this immensely comforting and overate out of several kinds of hunger.

I have just come from my Mittagesen, of which I overate to excess, and another serving of sweets might prove vomitory.

She moved to the drawing room for the afternoons and evenings, rarely went outside unless it was to visit her neighbors and friends by closed carriage, and overate, her particular indulgence being cream cakes and bonbons.

It was all very nice and I had a good tan, not red like this, and I was putting on weight from overeating, destroying my liver with overdrinking, you know.