oversleep

Etymology

From over- +‎ sleep.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈsliːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /oʊvəɹˈslip/
Rhymes: -iːp

Verb

oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)

(intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended. [from 14th c.]
I overslept and was late for school.
(reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended. [from 15th c.]
- 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; […], →OCLC:
  A]fter such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section IV:
  Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.
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  1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
  The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].
(transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.). [from 16th c.]
to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Antonyms

undersleep

Related terms

Translations

to sleep for longer than planned

Arabic: اِسْتَغْرَقَ فِي النَّوْم (istaḡraqa fī an-nawm)
Azerbaijani: yatıb qalmaq
Belarusian: праспа́ць pf (praspácʹ)
Bulgarian: успи́вам се impf (uspívam se), успя́ се pf (uspjá se)
Carpathian Rusyn: преспац (prespac)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 睡過頭 / 睡过头 (zh) (shuìguòtóu)
Czech: zaspat (cs) pf
Danish: sove over sig
Dutch: zich verslapen (nl)
Faroese: ovsova, sova yvir
Finnish: nukkua pommiin (fi)
French: trop dormir
German: verschlafen (de), verpennen (de)
Greek: παρακοιμάμαι (el) (parakoimámai)
Hungarian: elalszik (hu)
Icelandic: sofa yfir sig
Japanese: 寝過ごす (ja) (ねすごす, nesugosu), 寝坊する (ja) (ねぼうする, nebō suru)
Korean: 늦잠 을 자다 (neutjam-eul jada)
Latvian: aizgulēties
Lushootseed: ʔitutdubut
Macedonian: се успие pf (se uspie)
Maori: moeroa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forsove seg (no)
Polish: zasypiać (pl) impf, zaspać (pl) pf
Portuguese: dormir demais, adormecer (pt)
Russian: просыпа́ть (ru) impf (prosypátʹ) (usually perfective only), проспа́ть (ru) pf (prospátʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: преспа́вати pf

Roman: prespávati (sh) pf
Slovak: zaspať pf
Slovene: prespati pf
Spanish: quedarse dormido
Swedish: försova sig (sv)
Turkish: uyuyakalmak (tr)
Ukrainian: просипа́ти impf (prosypáty) (usually perfective only), проспа́ти pf (prospáty)

Anagrams

overpeels, sleep over, sleepover