different between outsleep vs oversleep

English

Etymology

out- +? sleep

Verb

outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)

1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIII

     And often in his secret soul he prays

     To sleep through barren periods unaware,

     Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;

     Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,

     He would outsleep another term of care.

Anagrams

• eelpouts, peelouts, sleep out, sleepout

English

Etymology

over- +? sleep

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v???sli?p/

Verb

oversleep (third-person singular simple present oversleeps, present participle oversleeping, simple past and past participle overslept)

1. (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended. [from 14th c.]

   I overslept and was late for school.

2. (reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended. [from 15th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 81:

     [A]fter such a train of fatigue and restless nights, I had unhappily overslept myself […].

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, IV:

     Theodore made awkward excuses, and attributed his delay to having overslept himself.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     The following morning, Toad, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast disgracefully late, [...].

3. (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.). [from 16th c.]

   to oversleep one's usual hour of rising

Related terms

• sleep in
• sleep it out

Antonyms

• undersleep

Translations

Anagrams

• overpeels, sleep over, sleepover