overstay
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they overstay | |
| he / she / it overstays | |
| past simple overstayed | |
| past participle overstayed | |
| -ing form overstaying |
- overstay something
to stay longer than the length of time you are expected or allowed to stay 停留过久 Oxford Collocations DictionaryOverstay is used with these nouns as the object:- visa
- welcome
Idioms
outstay/overstay your welcome
to stay somewhere as a guest longer than you are wanted 做客太久而不再受欢迎 Sensing that he had outstayed his welcome, he quickly said his goodbyes and left. 他感觉到自己逗留的时间太长已经不再受欢迎，赶快说声再见就离开了。