verb
- to sleep longer than intended or beyond the usual time
Examples
- I overslept and missed my morning meeting.
- She set three alarms because she tends to oversleep.
- Don’t oversleep tomorrow or you’ll be late for the exam.
- He overslept by two hours and had to rush to work.
- The students overslept after staying up late studying.
- I’m afraid I’ll oversleep, so I asked my roommate to wake me up.