oversleep
verbUK /əʊvəˈsliːp/ · US /oʊvəɹˈslip/
Etymology From over- + sleep.
1
To sleep for longer than intended.
- I overslept and was late for school.
2
Archaic To sleep for longer than one intended.
- After such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC:
- Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV:
1 more example
- The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
3
To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).
- to oversleep one's usual hour of rising
- Antonyms
- undersleep
- Derived terms
- oversleeper