0 to eat more food than your body needs, especially so that you feel uncomfortably full
1 to eat more food than your body needs, esp. so that you feel uncomfortable:
You’re supposed to overeat on Thanksgiving.
Because of the slowed transit through the bowel, overeating leads to nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
For example, one might hypothesize that overeating in the family contributes to an increased risk for childhood obesity.
My informants tend to judge transitive overeat slightly less acceptable than intransitive overeat.
Thus, what distinguishes between eat and overeat in this construal is nothing more than the amount of food eaten.
This aversion to discussing weight hinders further the possibility for the exploration of underlying causes of overeating.
In fact, one of my informants even suggested that transitive overeat is totally unacceptable.
For example, a gene for obesity will only make you fat if you overeat.
Film-induced negative affect triggers overeating in restrained eaters.
