overenjoy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ enjoy

Verb[edit]

overenjoy (third-person singular simple present overenjoys, present participle overenjoying, simple past and past participle overenjoyed)

  1. (transitive) To enjoy too much.
    • 2007 November 19, “Metropolitan Diary”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.