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Dictionary: o·ver·eat   (ō'vər-ēt') pronunciation
intr.v., -ate (-āt'), -eat·en (-ēt'n), -eat·ing, -eats.
To eat to excess, especially when habitual.

overeater o'ver·eat'er n.

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Veterinary Dictionary: overeating
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Eating too much food too quickly; leads to acute gastric dilatation in dogs and horses, acute carbohydrate engorgement in ruminants, dietetic (dietary) diarrhea in young calves and foals, abomasal tympany in bottle fed lambs and calves.

  • o. disease — 1. acute carbohydrate engorgement in ruminants.
  • — 2. enterotoxemia due to Clostridium perfringens type D.
Devil's Dictionary: overeat
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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce


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


Word Tutor: overeat
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: To consume too much.

pronunciation One solution to reducing the number of leftovers is to overeat.

Translations: Overeat
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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - spise for meget
v. intr. - forspise sig

Nederlands (Dutch)
teveel eten

Français (French)
v. tr. - manger à l'excès
v. intr. - manger à l'excès

Deutsch (German)
v. - zuviel essen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - παρατρώω

Italiano (Italian)
rimpinzarsi

Português (Portuguese)
v. - empanturrar-se, comer demais

Русский (Russian)
переедать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - comer en exceso o demasiado
v. intr. - comer en exceso o demasiado

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - föräta sig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
使吃过量, 吃得过饱

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使吃過量
v. intr. - 吃得過飽

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 과식하다
v. intr. - 과식하여 탈이 나다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 食べ過ぎる, 食べすぎる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يفرط في الأكل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮אכל יותר מדי‬
v. intr. - ‮אכל יותר מדי‬


 
 
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