oversleep
verb/əʊvəˈsliːp/UK/oʊvəɹˈslip/US
Etymology
Definitions
To sleep for longer than intended.
- I overslept and was late for school.
To sleep for longer than one intended.
- After such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].
- Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.
- The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].
To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).
- to oversleep one's usual hour of rising
The neighborhood
- antonymundersleep
- neighboroutsleep
- neighborsleep in
- neighborsleep it out
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for oversleep. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA