overeat
verb (used without object)
to eat too much.
are overeating
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present progressiveof overeat.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It has to be true according to physics, but tells us nothing useful about _why_ people are overeating, or why this has changed on a population level.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2016
But, as Gary Taubes puts it, obese people are not fat because they are overeating and sedentary – they are overeating and sedentary because they are fat, or getting fatter.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
"If a lack of serotonin is the reason patients are overeating, then Redux should work beautifully," Joseph says.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if they are overeating for some other reason, then it probably won't do any good.
From Time Magazine Archive
We, the hundreds of thousands of overweight citizens, combined with the hundreds of thousands of the normal who are overeating to their ill, can save all the food that is necessary.
From Diet and Health With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters
