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oversleep
[ oh-ver-sleep ]
verb (used without object)
- to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking:
He overslept and missed his train.
oversleep
/ ˌəʊvəˈsliːp /
verb
- intr to sleep beyond the intended time for getting up
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oversleep1
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Example Sentences
After the shift in start time, students in the delayed-start schools were less likely to oversleep.
You can freeze these packs ahead for those days when everyone oversleeps and needs to fuel up fast.
Falling behind in school, he’d often stay up late to study, then oversleep the next day.
One, it removes any conscious or subconscious fear that you’ll oversleep.
On the days I went to school, I would oversleep for work and come late.
There is always the possibility that they may oversleep themselves and fall into a dormant and inactive state.
Above all, you must not let me oversleep myself, for otherwise I shall be late in arriving at Granada.
Daisy Bell had half a mind to let her oversleep and lose a mark, then she really did love her too well.
I had slept little the previous night, and was afraid that I might oversleep myself in consequence.
That worthy individual did not oversleep himself, nor did he suffer the Jew to do so either.
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