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.
Indeed, the cultural ' ' problem ' ' of overeating is a problem only in societies of relative abundance, where food is easily obtained.
We agree with those who think that overeating is acquired behaviour and it follows that it can be avoided.
Thus overeat 'to eat beyond the proper limit' means 'to eat beyond the capacity of oneself as a container'.
Because there is only one participant, overeat does not fit with the transitive syntax.
For example, a stomachache caused by overeating is not evidence of a disease.
This form of analysis seems difficult to apply to overeat, for eat does not clearly involve motion.
They should not overeat, but take small helpings of simple food.
Film-induced negative affect triggers overeating in restrained eaters.
