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oversleep, v.|əʊvəˈsliːp|
[over- 18, 23.]
1. To sleep too long; to sleep beyond the time at which one ought to awake.
a. intr.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lv. (1495) 636 Meue thy body leest that thou ouerslepe. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxiv. (1612) 306 His man fain'd feare to ouer-sleepe, and would not downe him lay. 1881Mrs. H. Hunt Childr. Jerus. 158, I will not let you over-sleep, be sure.
b. refl. In same sense.
c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 2646 That she her self not ouerslept. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xvii. 15 Although he never overslept himself, yet..after long forwerying, he lay as it were in a slomber. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. iii. (1840) 51 They were weary, and overslept themselves. 1893Leland Mem. I. 218 Which sight I missed by over-sleeping myself.
2. trans. To sleep beyond (a particular time).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 133 b, To be ware, that we ouerslepe not our tyme. 1828Webster s.v., To oversleep the usual hour of rising. |