Oversleep

Quick meaning: Oversleep is a verb meaning (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended.

Meaning

(intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended.

More Meanings

1. (reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended.
2. (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).

Example Sentences

I overslept and was late for school.

to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.

After such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].

Word Forms

• oversleeps
• oversleeping
• overslept

Antonyms for oversleep

Common opposites include undersleep.

Related Words

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