binge
Americannoun
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binges
plural
verb (used without object)
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binges,
present (3rd person singular)
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binged,
past participle, past
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bingeing,
present participle
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binging
present participle
noun
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a bout of excessive eating or drinking
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excessive indulgence in anything
a shopping binge
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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bingesimple
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bingessimple
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have bingedperfect
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has bingedperfect
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am bingeingprogressive
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am bingingprogressive
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are bingeingprogressive
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are bingingprogressive
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is bingeingprogressive
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is bingingprogressive
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have been bingeingperfect progressive
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have been bingingperfect progressive
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has been bingeingperfect progressive
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has been bingingperfect progressive
Past
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bingedsimple
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had bingedperfect
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was bingeingprogressive
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was bingingprogressive
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were bingeingprogressive
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were bingingprogressive
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had been bingeingperfect progressive
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had been bingingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of binge
First recorded in 1850–55; dialectal (Lincolnshire) binge “to soak”; further origin unknown
Explanation
A binge is a brief period of doing something excessively. You might celebrate your birthday by indulging in a banana cream pie binge if that's your very favorite dessert. Binge rhymes with fringe. If you give in to your urges and really indulge yourself, you binge on something, whether it's candy, video games, or shopping. There's an implied sense in the word binge that you're doing too much of something that isn't very good for you in the first place. Binge is also a verb, as in people who binge on television, watching show after show.
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Example Sentences
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But if you do binge the series first, watching it will be like “getting 24 consecutive deliveries of perfectly baked Parisian pastry.”
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
S&P pointed out in its downgrade that it’s concerned more broadly about the AI binge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Viewers will have plenty to cozy up to, with a slew of series dropping around holidays — a perfect time to binge your new favorite watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
As mentioned last month, it’s dark, smart and compelling, and consistently takes a familiar plot setup into unexpected territory; it’s worth a binge.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
It’s a puzzle why we binge on the sweetest and greasiest food we can find, until we consider the eating habits of our forager forebears.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Data-center developers have gone on their own borrowing binges to build capacity for Meta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Feelings of guilt often follow eating binges, he admitted.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
Thomson, the author of dozens of books including “The Biographical Dictionary of Film,” binges on “Ozark” and Godard but finds “L’Avventura” a drag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Johnson, who doesn’t consider himself a die-hard Bourdain fan, wasn’t interested in catering to viewers who have binged every episode of “Parts Unknown” or “No Reservations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
It then became an entertainment powerhouse by paying up for original series that could be streamed over the internet and often binged in a single evening.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
In reply to the post, Taraji P Henson - star of hits including Hidden Figures and Empire - said the show had had her in a "chokehold" and she had binged it in one day.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
In its first two weeks, 1.5 million premier-level subscribers had already binged the entire series, which has been rolling out one episode weekly for regular subscribers since May 6.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
She binged and dieted and then cycled through it all again.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Even then, you can save a few bucks by bingeing it all later on down the road.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
He has a casual demeanor and speaks English with an American accent picked up bingeing shows including “Entourage” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
The pupils all insist they are not bingeing more before and after school.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Mustafa is sprawled in his usual spot on the sofa watching an episode of the latest show he’s bingeing and doesn’t look up when we come into the room.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
I’m also nearly finished binging the sweet but juicy Peacock show “The Five-Star Weekend,” which is based on the Nantucket-set Elin Hilderbrand novel of the same name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Still, patient viewers can save by waiting a couple months and binging the full seasons of both.
From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026
And right now we just finished binging “From.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
For Sinead Quinn, she's "at a point in my life, I know this cycle of binging and restrictive dieting needs to stop".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
Before the show was over, all the humans were checking their buzzing and binging phones.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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