Definition of Oversleeping

1. Verb. (present participle of ''oversleep'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oversleeping

1. oversleep [v] - See also: oversleep

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversleeping

overskates
overskating
overskip
overskipped
overskipping
overskips
overskirt
overskirts
overslaugh
overslaughed
overslaughing
overslaughs
oversleep
oversleeper
oversleepers
oversleeping (current term)
oversleeps
oversleeve
oversleeves
overslept
overslid
overslide
overslides
oversliding
overslip
overslipped
overslipping
overslips
overslipt
overslop

Literary usage of Oversleeping

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

1. Amor Vitaque: A Little Book of Speculation in Lyric, Ballad and Omargram by John Baker Opdycke (1912)
"Fancy the luxury of oversleeping the rent even once in a life-time. It is said that they are not given in marriage in heaven. ..."

2. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"If you please, ma'am, I can't make Miss Majendie hear. She must be oversleeping herself, and Miss Violet too." "oversleeping themselves at this time of clay ..."

3. The Gift of Sleep by Bolton Hall (1911)
"It follows that oversleeping inclines to dullness and stupidity. ... The oversleeping may come to resemble the hibernation of some animals. ..."

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