Crossword clues for overeat
overeat
- Pig out before charging tax on duck
- Done up fronts of terraces awfully, eh? Stuff yourself!
- Dead centre in open gorge
- Stuff oneself silly
- Get stuffed
- Be a glutton
- Act the glutton
- Take in too much
- Have more than one's fill
- What many Americans do on Thanksgiving
- Take too many courses
- Take more than seconds
- Snack too much
- Risk indigestion
- Put too much away
- One way to ensure new clothes
- Indulge till you bulge
- Ignore one's diet
- Have too much dinner
- Break one's diet
- Binge on grub
- Behave as glutton
- Pig out
- Gorge oneself
- Binge, in a way
- Lose control at a buffet
- Indulge, perhaps
- Have a cow?
- Down too much
- Go beyond seconds, say
- Plain to see
- Lose control at the buffet
- Have thirds, say
- Indulge, in a way
- Gorge in middle of Yeovil, a tree ruined
- Gobble to excess
- Consume too much
- Old container brought round before getting pig out
- Stuff your face and get too hot in Bow?
- Stuff oneself before boarding old vessel
- Stuff above re-attempted in part
- How to put weight on each in public
- Put too much in round barrel before getting in
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overeat \O`ver*eat"\, v. t. & i.
To gnaw all over, or on all sides. [Obs.]
--Shak.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
Wiktionary
vb. To eat too much.
WordNet
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.