Definition of "oversleep" []

• To sleep beyond one's usual or intended time for waking. (verb-intransitive)
• To sleep beyond the time for: I overslept my appointment. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Why is this man so fixated about wars, if you going to Iraq and telling our military it is time for them to come home, then by all means, please go but if you are going over to use them again, then God, please let McCain oversleep and miss his flight, thank you."
• "Kids will oversleep and miss breakfast hours at the cafeteria."
• "She'd be so tired that she would oversleep and miss the pick-up time at the end of the school day."