oversleep
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɹˌsliːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)
- (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended. [from 14th c.]
- I overslept and was late for school.
- (reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended. [from 15th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- A]fter such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV:
- Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.
- '1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].
- (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.). [from 16th c.]
- to oversleep one's usual hour of rising
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to sleep for longer than planned
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