What does "oversleep" mean?
Oversleep: To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.
Additional senses
- 2.To sleep too long.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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