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Definition of Overslept
1. oversleep [v] - See also: oversleep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overslept
Literary usage of Overslept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1908)
"and overslept themselves. The case was this: they had resolved to stay till
midnight, and so take the two poor men when they were asleep, and, ..."
2. Composition and Rhetoric by William M. Tanner (1922)
"Incorrect: "Because you overslept does not excuse you." "The reason I am late is
because I overslept." Correct: "The fact that you overslept does not excuse ..."
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