oversleep

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈəʊvəɹˌsliːp/

Verb

oversleep (oversleeps, present participle oversleeping; past overslept, past participle overslept)

1. (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended. [from 14th c.]

   I overslept and was late for school.

2. (reflexive, now, rare) To sleep for longer than one intended. [from 15th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:

     [A]fter such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, IV:

     Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].

3. (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.). [from 16th c.]

   to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Related terms

• sleep in
• sleep it out

Antonyms

• undersleep

Translations

• French: trop dormir
• German: verschlafen
• Portuguese: dormir demais
• Russian: проспа́ть

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