overeat

• over-eat

over- +‎ eat

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈit/
• Rhymes: -iːt

overeat (third-person singular simple present overeats, present participle overeating, simple past overate, past participle overeaten)

1. (intransitive) To eat too much. [from 16th c.]
2. (reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating. [from 17th c.]
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 255:

     Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.

   • 1896, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:

     At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]

• pack on the pounds
• obesity

• overate, toreave