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Definition of Overindulges
1. overindulge [v] - See also: overindulge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overindulges
Literary usage of Overindulges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia: Hearings ... Sixty by Committee on Education and Labor, United States, Senate, Congress (1913)
"I believe, like Mr. Dooley. that я little work is all right—a little for the
stomach's sake—but it will ruin any man •who overindulges in it. ..."
2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"In neither case can alcohol or tobacco or other toxic agent be held answerable
for the disease. The patient of case 1 overindulges habitually in alcohol, ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"One who appears to lack motivation, does not follow medical advice, does not take
his medication, and overindulges in food or fluids usually has a much ..."
4. Variations by James Huneker (1921)
"And doomed, too, is the prohibitionist who overindulges in flapjacks and fried
steak. Native cookery has slain more than the rum mills of the universe. ..."
5. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"The patient of case 1 overindulges habitually in alcohol, and uses tobacco to
great excess. The patient of case 2 has been a total abstainer from alcohol ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"The emotional maiden who overindulges her imagination with novels should be
recommended to exercise her reasoning faculty more with works of a different ..."
7. A Hispanic edited by Jose Szapocznik (1998)
"The "good" parent, which refers to the parent who overindulges and pampers
children, we have renamed as the ..."
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