binge eating

noun

1. a usually brief period or bout of excessive eating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of binge eating¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

They are concerned that encouraging abstinence from particular foods could trigger binge eating and extreme dieting to compensate.

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She first opened up about her restrictive diet and binge eating in her 2001 autobiography, “Learning to Fly.”

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Sinead Quinn, from Londonderry, said binge eating compulsions had made her "a prisoner in her own home, afraid of food and afraid of herself".

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Binge eating disorder involves regularly eating a lot of food over a short period of time until you are uncomfortably full.

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Yesterday, the court heard that Ms Patterson had struggled with bulimia since her teens and was prone to regularly binge eating and vomiting after meals.

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