as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess
because he watches his diet for most of the year, he feels free to overeat during the holidays
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Recent Examples of overeat
People who struggle with emotional eating may overeat in response to difficult emotions like sadness and anxiety.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
Sign #8: Failure to Quit Despite previous attempts to stop overeating and giving in to food cravings, people with food addiction tend to continuously fail to do so.
—Michael MacIntyre, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
Overeating and Its Triggers There are many possible causes of overeating.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
Avoid Restrictive Diets Being overly restrictive with your food choices might cause you to overeat.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
Sign #8: Failure to Quit Despite previous attempts to stop overeating and giving in to food cravings, people with food addiction tend to continuously fail to do so.
—Michael MacIntyre, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
Overeating and Its Triggers There are many possible causes of overeating.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
Avoid Restrictive Diets Being overly restrictive with your food choices might cause you to overeat.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overeat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overeat
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Over the next few months, the fry will gorge themselves on thousands of tiny crustaceans each week, while the institution’s Animal Care team will be hard at work to ensure that as many as possible can reach full maturity.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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Rubinoff has already brought several into the lab, where the caterpillars can gorge themselves on Drosophila pupae with no fear of spiders interrupting the feast.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2025
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Millions of periodical cicadas bide their time, feasting on tree roots and counting the years.—
Sarah Henry,
The Courier-Journal,
8 July 2025
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Around those tables sat families feasting on pizzas, lasagna and chicken parmesan.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Overeat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeat. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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