Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To sleep beyond one's usual or intended time for waking.
- intransitive verb To sleep beyond the time for.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sleep beyond: as, to
oversleep the usual hour of rising. - To sleep beyond the proper or desired time of waking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To sleep beyond.
- intransitive verb To sleep too long.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To involuntarily stay
sleeping longer than planned.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sleep longer than intended
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Examples
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Why is this man so fixated about wars, if you going to Iraq and telling our military it is time for them to come home, then by all means, please go but if you are going over to use them again, then God, please let McCain oversleep and miss his flight, thank you.
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You could oversleep an hour and still get to work on time.
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Petra did not sleep well that night, torn between worry that he might oversleep and …. overstimulating … images of the Freefolk girl dancing.
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It's windy and raining here in Providence (and oddly warm, high 50sF), and Spooky and I both took that as a cue to oversleep.
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Frustrated iPhone users took to Twitter with their complaints, many noting that the glitch had caused them to oversleep and miss appointments.
iPhone Alarm Not Working: Users Oversleep In New Year Due To iPhone Bug
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She'd be so tired that she would oversleep and miss the pick-up time at the end of the school day.
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Kids will oversleep and miss breakfast hours at the cafeteria.
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You could oversleep an hour and still get to work on time.
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She'd be so tired that she would oversleep and miss the pick-up time at the end of the school day.
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Frustrated iPhone users took to Twitter with their complaints, many noting that the glitch had caused them to oversleep and miss appointments.
iPhone Alarm Not Working: Users Oversleep In New Year Due To iPhone Bug
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