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OVEREATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("overeating" is a kind of...):
deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)
Derivation:
overeat (overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb overeat
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