oversleep
Use Oversleep in a sentence
vərˈslip verb (used without object)
1.
to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
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| —vb , -sleeps, -sleeping, -slept | |
| (intr) to sleep beyond the intended time for getting up | |
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Example sentences
Don't oversleep or avoid the outdoors because it's cold outside.
Go to bed as soon as you start feeling tired, and don't oversleep.
Fer fear they would oversleep themselves, they sat up all night.
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