Crossword clues for overstay
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overstay \O`ver*stay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overstayedor
Overstaid; p. pr. & vb. n. Overstaying.]
To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the
appointed time; to overstay one's welcome.
--Bp. Hall.
Wiktionary
n. The act of staying too long. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time. 2 (context transitive English) To remain present beyond the limits of.
WordNet
v. stay too long; "overstay or outstay one's welcome" [syn: outstay]
Usage examples of "overstay".
On the one hand, Harold was polite about running into them and tactful about not overstaying his welcome.
Oddly enough, in later years, on 30th August 1792, having just succeeded in getting himself reinstated as captain after his absence, overstaying leave, he applied to pass into the Artillerie de la Marine.
Never mind anything else, like his having nothing against him unless it was overstaying a parking meter or two.
In fact, I once computed that it would be possible to spend four and a half years visiting them all without spending a pence, without overstaying a welcome, and without imposing on the same relative twice.
Male wizards would need to use a specific spell to enter, one that would do much the same thing, although if they overstayed it would turn them into very-much-New-Harmony-type wizards, and it would stick.
Tristen drew in a breath rough-edged with the smell of oak and earth and autumn, and knew that Mauryl would not be there, not at distant Ynefel, certainly not on this hilltop in Guelessar, and that he had well and truly overstayed his time, since he heard the jingling of men and horses coming up the road.
Then one night, Lord, after overstaying his leave a full ten days, he rode into the Guardroom at Serré late one night.
I'm afraid I'm overstaying my welcome in this period even now, and our power is far more limited than yours.
They'll be useless to me anywhere outside of the Outer Lawless regions, and I do not plan on overstaying my welcome.
The other prisoners were all female, all military personnel, no doubt in for overstaying a furlough or punching somebody like the ensign in the mouth—all good people, I was sure.
It's summer, daylight overstays its welcome and I don't have the strength to keep my eyes from closing long enough to watch the night come on.
He had not only overstayed his leave, but the wagon in which Mary Devereaux and Belle Renick rode was being directed away from the post.