Overeat

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overeat \O`ver*eat"\, v. t. & i.
     1. To gnaw all over, or on all sides. [Obs.] --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To eat to excess; -- sometimes with a reflexive; as, she
        overate at the party and spent the next week dieting.


        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  OVEREAT, v.  To dine.
  
      Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess,
      Well skilled to overeat without distress!
      Thy great invention, the unfatal feast,
      Shows Man's superiority to Beast.
                                                               John Boop