overeat

_overeat_

Verb.

Pronunciation and accent: əʊvəriːt.

Etymology: analysed into over- (= beyond) + EAT.

Definition: in both intransitive and reflexive construction: to eat too much.

Synonym: to surfeit.

Without doubt, the most of mankind grossly overeat themselves.

Robert Stevenson… Travels with a Donkey…

We made Gandish overeat and overdrink himself in the supper-room.

William Thackeray… The Newcomes

We this day had many birds of the Pintadoe and Petterel kind about us. One of the former species, a very beautiful bird, in the height of the gale, from what cause I know not, unless it had overeaten itself, fell down on the deck, and vomited a greenish sort of matter as it was falling.

James Grant… Voyage of Discovery to N.S.W.

Word derived from the verb: overeating (noun).