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Oversleep

verb

(past & past part. overslept; pres. part. oversleeping)

Sleep longer than intended.

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"Oversleep" Quotes from Famous Books

... and straining metaphor to the utmost, said that if the finger of Providence had not made her oversleep herself she would undoubtedly have shared ...

— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs

... short of hands; indeed, even without a single sailor. And, by the way, Harry, if you apply soon enough, it's good as certain you'll be made mate— first at that; all the more from your being able to speak Spanish. It's too late for you to do anything about it to-night; but don't oversleep yourself. Be at the ship-agent's ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... you sleep, my dear! I've been calling and rapping here for a quarter of an hour! Good gracious, child what made you oversleep yourself so?" ...

— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... myself, and as I did not have a club or anything to kill them with, I concluded I wouldn't go any farther. It isn't so very dirty in there. Most of this I got on myself scraping down the burnt vines. Here comes the captain. He doesn't generally oversleep himself like this. If he will go with me, ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

... never mind. I can't tell you, so don't pester me. All I ast of you is to wake me at five if I happen to oversleep." ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

Words linked to "Oversleep" : catch some Z's, slumber, log Z's, sleep, kip