Definition of Overeaten

1. Verb. (past participle of overeat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overeaten

1. overeat [v] - See also: overeat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeaten

overdust
overdusts
overdye
overdyed
overdyeing
overdyer
overdyers
overdyes
overeager
overeagerly
overeagerness
overeagernesses
overearnest
overeasy
overeat
overeaten (current term)
overeater
overeaters
overeating
overeats
overed
overedit
overedited
overediting
overedits
overeducate
overeducated
overeducates
overeducating
overeducation

Literary usage of Overeaten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What Must I Do to Get Well, and how Can I Keep So? by Elma Fraser Stuart (1898)
"... and should be discreetly attended to)—whereas if you have overeaten it is not easy gracefully to get rid of the overplus !1 But when all's said, ..."

2. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"Lydgate pleaded for those whose fathers and mothers had overeaten themselves, but Mrs. Farebrother held that view of things dangerous : Nature was more just ..."

3. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"She has only overeaten herself — that is all. She is greatly better- She will soon be quite restored again. She is weak from being cupped and from medical ..."

4. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... had been reduced nearly one- eighth by the death of two of his most corpulent soldiers, who had overeaten themselves on fat salmon caught in the ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"Greedy little beast—overeaten himself—be all right in morning." Doctor accepts cigar, and tells me gleefully of singularly horrible operation, ..."

6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"She has only overeaten herself—that is all. She is greatly better. She will soon be quite restored again. She is weak from being cupped and from medical ..."

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