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third-person singular simple present overeats, present participle overeating, simple past overate, past participle overeaten
(intransitive) To eat too much. examples
(transitive, intransitive) To eat too much of. quotations examples
Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles.
2019, Alberto Villoldo, Grow a New Body (page 66)
(reflexive, dated) To surfeit with eating. quotations examples
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