overeating

overeat | American Dictionary

overeat
verb[ I ]
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈit/past tenseoverateus/ˌoʊ·vərˈeɪt/ | past participleovereatenus/ˌoʊ·vərˈi·tən/
to eat more food than your body needs, esp. so that you feel uncomfortable:
You’re supposed to overeat on Thanksgiving.

Examples of overeat

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Because of the slowed transit through the bowel, overeating leads to nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
For example, one might hypothesize that overeating in the family contributes to an increased risk for childhood obesity.
My informants tend to judge transitive overeat slightly less acceptable than intransitive overeat.
Thus, what distinguishes between eat and overeat in this construal is nothing more than the amount of food eaten.
This aversion to discussing weight hinders further the possibility for the exploration of underlying causes of overeating.
In fact, one of my informants even suggested that transitive overeat is totally unacceptable.
For example, a gene for obesity will only make you fat if you overeat.
They should not overeat, but take small helpings of simple food.
This form of analysis seems difficult to apply to overeat, for eat does not clearly involve motion.
For example, a stomachache caused by overeating is not evidence of a disease.
Because there is only one participant, overeat does not fit with the transitive syntax.
Thus overeat 'to eat beyond the proper limit' means 'to eat beyond the capacity of oneself as a container'.
We agree with those who think that overeating is acquired behaviour and it follows that it can be avoided.
Indeed, the cultural ' ' problem ' ' of overeating is a problem only in societies of relative abundance, where food is easily obtained.
In broad terms, these clusters correspond to bulimia nervosa with restrictive tendencies and to a grouping of other states characterized by overeating and high weight.
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