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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The big artificial-intelligence borrowing binge is back on.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Tech startups with easy access to capital pursued loss-leading strategies to acquire customers, and private-equity firms went on an acquisition binge powered by cheap debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
The advent of streaming in the late 2000s replaced syndication with on-demand, binge rewatches, extending the half-life of television toward the infinite.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
June 24—Today I went on a strange kind of antiintellectual binge.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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
AI announcements have already set off several stock-buying binges in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
Software companies account for about one-third of the loans coming due in 2028 and 2029, in large part because private-equity funds binged on buyouts of the technology companies over the past decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Lioness” can be binged later, and soccer and football won’t really kick into gear until September.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 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
Before filming his first episode, Cudi binged several podcasts and tapped people like writer, producer and actor Lena Waithe, whose guidance helped him navigate hosting and connect authentically with his guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
After bingeing on software firms in 2020 and 2021, many private-equity firms are now stuck holding companies with worsening outlooks and rising debt loads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Now you just drop a service entirely at the click of a button, when a sports season ends or you’re done bingeing a favorite show.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
Young people around the world are snatching Adidas Tang-style jackets off the shelves, bingeing on Chinese micro-dramas and experimenting with powdery make-up looks flaunted by Chinese girls and women on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
“He’s going on a date, not bingeing Simpsons reruns.”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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
The sci-fi series changed his life, he said, from binging early episodes on VHS tape in the 1990s to ending up working behind the scenes many years later.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
Unlike disordered-eating behaviors like binging or purging, which often prompt concern or intervention, orthorexic actions are likely to be overlooked or even praised.
From Slate ● May 25, 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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