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# overeat

«overeat» in Mova's school dictionary: **to eat more food than your body needs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (overeat, overeats, overate, overeaten, overeating)

### meaning for a pupil

To overeat is to eat more food than your body needs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons, pupils learn that overeating, especially sweets and fatty food, can make you feel sick and over time can lead to weight problems; eating slowly helps you notice when you are full. Holidays and parties are times people often overeat.

### examples

- I overate at the party and felt sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x1)
- Try not to overeat at Christmas dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x2)
- Eating slowly helps you not overeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x3)
- Dogs will overeat if you let them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x4)
- He overeats when he is bored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x5)
- We had overeaten, so we went for a walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/#x6)

### note

Irregular like "eat": overeat, overate, overeaten. Noun: overeating. "Over-" means too much.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overeat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/overeat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.