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Word: overeaten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...with memories of horror, upsets the placid routine of the two other patients in Room No. 5. Desperately intent on having her crippled body reshaped, she has neither understanding nor sympathy for the resignation of the paralyticThura or the gross self-indulgence of Fröken Nilsson, who has overeaten to the point where her broken leg cannot support her porcine body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Room No. 5 | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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