verb
Meaning 1
To indulge to excess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
overindulge
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verb
Meaning 2
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English indulge English overindulge From over- + indulge.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: përlugëtohem — indulge to excess
- Bulgarian: прекалявам (prekaljavam) — indulge to excess
- Chinese Mandarin: 過於沉溺 /过于沉溺 (guòyú chénnì) — indulge to excess
- Finnish: hemmotella pilalle — indulge to excess
- Finnish: pilata — indulge to excess
- Polish: rozpuszczać — indulge to excess
- Polish: rozpuścić — indulge to excess
- Polish: folgować — indulge to excess
- Russian: изли́шествовать (izlíšestvovatʹ) — indulge to excess
- Russian: злоупотребля́ть (zloupotrebljátʹ) — indulge to excess