overenjoy en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + enjoy.
Meanings
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(transitive) To enjoy too much.
But having just returned from almost six years living in Asia, where we enjoyed — and perhaps overenjoyed — a wide array of culinary treats, she has been very, and somewhat loudly, focused on my shedding an equally wide array of excess pounds by resisting such temptations.
2007 November 19, “Metropolitan Diary”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overenjoying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overenjoyed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overenjoyed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overenjoys | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |