Definition of 'oversleep'
Trends of 'oversleep'
Used Rarely. oversleep is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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Translations for 'oversleep'
British English: oversleep /ˌəʊvəˈsliːp/ VERB
If you oversleep, you sleep longer than you should have done.
I forgot to set my alarm and I overslept.
- American English: oversleep
- Arabic: يَسْتَغْرِقُ في النَّوْم
- Brazilian Portuguese: dormir além da hora
- Chinese: 睡过头
- Croatian: zaspati
- Czech: zaspat
- Danish: sove over sig
- Dutch: verslapen
- European Spanish: quedarse dormido
- Finnish: nukkua liian kauan
- French: se réveiller trop tard
- German: verschlafen
- Greek: παρακοιμάμαι
- Italian: restare addormentato
- Japanese: 寝過ごす
- Korean: 너무 자다
- Norwegian: forsove (seg)
- Polish: zaspać
- European Portuguese: dormir para além da hora devida
- Romanian: a dormi prea mult
- Russian: проспать
- Spanish: quedarse dormido
- Swedish: försova (sig)
- Thai: นอนเกินเวลา
- Turkish: uyuyakalmak
- Ukrainian: проспати
- Vietnamese: ngủ quá giấc
Definition of oversleep from the Collins English Dictionary
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