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Definition of Overeats
1. overeat [v] - See also: overeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeats
Literary usage of Overeats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aristocracy of Health: A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons by Mary Foote Henderson (1906)
"If he habitually overeats, this condition becomes chronic, his entire body is
poisoned, his brain secretes an inferior quality of mind, and he transmits to ..."
2. The Home and Its Management: A Handbook in Homemaking, with Three Hundred by Mabel Hyde Kittredge (1918)
"The fly always overeats, and it overeats decayed material, which it prefers to
fresh food. This overeating causes a distention of the body, and in order to ..."
3. Clinical Journal (1902)
"It is commonly recognised that everybody overeats and ... but particularly overeats.
In middle life a large number of patients with ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"... overeats himself, always wishes to halt and eat more, and withal is entirely
contented. The head chief of these parts— ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"... he asked me whether Dr. Buckland was a poet, whether Sir Sydney Smith was not
an Admiral; he generally overeats and drinks himself at the house-dinners ..."
6. The Bookman (1907)
"... eats improper food and overeats, honestly believing that it is pursuing a
proper course. As time-honoured as the old method of counterpoising the grist ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"He vomits sometimes if he overeats. The bowels are now too loose; he goes to
stool about three times a day. He thinks that food leaves his stomach sooner ..."
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