(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young male Sprague-Dawley rats were induced to overeat (approximately 45%) by provision of a "cafeteria" (CAF) diet of palatable human foods.
(2) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
(3) Only rats with electrolytic lesions displayed elevated plasma insulin levels during an initial period of food restriction, but both groups with lesions were hyperinsulinemic when allowed to overeat.
(4) If the addict says it is a choice to overeat, who are you, or I, to disagree?
(5) Whether obese humans will overeat in response to a reduction in body energy stores is not known.
(6) Under these conditions, these animals overeat, but the major part of the excess energy intake above maintenance, is dissipated as heat through the sympathetic activation of brown adipose tissue.
(7) Obese and nonobese American Indians overeat in response to stress.
(8) Obesity was induced by programming pups to overeat immediately after birth and then feeding them a high-fat diet thereafter.
(9) Diets that cause animals to overeat and become obese have been used in many investigations of obesity.
(10) There is little evidence that people who are driven to overeat become dependent on a single ingredient; instead they tend to seek out a range of highly palatable, energy-dense foods, of the kind with which we are now surrounded.
(11) Another paper found that the more weight-conscious people are, the more likely they are to overeat : the stress it induces is a trigger for comfort eating.
(12) Only bulimic anorexia nervosa respondents perceived any interventions to be more harmful than helpful, specifically Overeaters Anonymous and self-help groups, both nonprofessional interventions.
(13) Alloxan-diabetic rats fed a standard, low-fat diet lost body weight and were hyperphagic; those fed a high-fat diet lost comparable amounts of weight, but did not overeat compared to normal animals.
(14) With a baby-led approach, parents report that their children are more likely to stop eating when they feel full and may, therefore, be less likely to overeat and be overweight in the long run.” Stay aware Stay aware of your child’s weight and growth.
(15) As part of a large survey of addictive behavior in high school students, 43% of a sample of 278 (26% of the males, 57% of the females) scored above the cutoff point set by Overeaters Anonymous on their scale for assessing compulsive overeating.
(16) Although it is possible to overeat the gastric pouch, the overall result of gastric bypass, in terms of weight loss, is quite satisfactory, and the mortality rate of less than 2 per cent and the morbidity rate of less than 20 per cent are also acceptable.
(17) Adopted an ecological framework to view mutual-help groups, and illustrated its usefulness by examining aspects of the social ecology of "fit" among 163 members of Compassionate Friends (bereaved parents; CF), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Overeaters Anonymous (OA) groups.
(18) The findings suggest that a normal woman need not overeat to ensure normal growth of her fetus.
(19) It was hypothesized that hamsters do not overeat following 2DG administration because of unusually strong aversive effects of the drug in this species.
(20) While all three samples were similar on the Motivation scales, Smokers differed substantially from Alcoholics and Overeaters on the Style scales and in terms of Emotional effects.
Overheat
Definition:
(v. t.) To heat to excess; to superheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Pre-programmed only to ask questions, Small Talk begins to overheat and stammer] Erm, erm, no idea.
(2) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(3) Spoon the yoghurt, tahini, garlic and a quarter-teaspoon of salt into a medium saucepan, stir and warm through gently; don’t overheat it, or it will split.
(4) When I did overheat, I stopped for a shower at one of the many roadside waterfalls cascading down the mountainside.
(5) Edmund King, the AA president, said: “With temperatures picking up, travellers will have to make sure their cars don’t overheat and also carry water for themselves should they get stuck in a traffic jam.
(6) Physiological-hygienic studies are performed on the thermal status of workers exposed to overheat microclimate in the production of chocolate and other confectionery, according to the following indices: temperature of the skin, perspiration, average temperature of the body and pulse.
(7) These events could have given Fed policymakers a very welcome excuse to hit the “pause” button yet again, postponing a rate hike decision until at least their December meeting with the twin arguments that it is too risky to forge ahead in the uncertain market environment and that, anyway, emerging market turmoil has managed to take any steam or froth out of the US economy, reducing the danger it will overheat.
(8) But a loosely fitting shirt and maybe some trousers will, far from causing you to overheat, actually offer some protection against the sun as well as preventing nakedness.
(9) "This report says, for the first time, that not only are our homes and offices leaky, but that they will start to overheat in a warmer world," said Mallaburn.
(10) Wood has her own answer, arguing that Wales has long suffered from being "on the periphery of an economy that is mainly focused on London and the south-east of England and which overheats, to the detriment of the peripheral areas".
(11) I may want to lie down and weep as I overheat and struggle to keep up, but the group encouragement gets me through the bootcamp-style workout before we jog into the waves for a two-hour surf lesson.
(12) The lithium-ion battery in the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones can overheat and catch fire, posing serious fire and burn hazard to consumers,” the agency said in a release.
(13) To make sure the power plant does not overheat, control rods made of a material that absorbs neutrons are lowered into the reactor.
(14) Organs can no longer function, and if heatstroke isn’t treated fast, the brain overheats, sometimes leading to death.
(15) The more the market were to overheat, the more this measure could bite.
(16) If it waits too long there is the possibility that some markets will overheat (remember the housing bubble?)
(17) He said "bitter experience" had shown what could happen when the housing market was allowed to overheat.
(18) Distrust has only deepened between developed and developing countries over how to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the earth to overheat.
(19) When Greyson and Loubani arrived at Tora, warders purposely left the three-dozen men inside the cramped truck, so that they might overheat in the blazing Cairo sun.
(20) When decreasing the blood flow below a certain value (dependent on sea temperature and whale activity) the large whales would overheat.