overeat

Other forms of overeat

past tense

overeated·

present participle

overeating·

third person

overeats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overeat

What does overeat mean?

overeat means "overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself".

How many syllables are in overeat?

overeat has 3 syllables: o-ve-reat. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌit/.

What is another word for overeat?

Close synonyms include gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overeat a common word?

overeat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overeat?

2 words rhyme with overeat. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.