Binge vs Indulge - What's the difference?
binge | indulge |
A short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
(eating disorder) A rapid and excessive consumption of food.
To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.
(to engage in a short period of excessive consumption)
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* Italian: (t)
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: To yield to a temptation or desire.
To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
* Atterbury
To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between binge and indulge
is that binge is to engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption while indulge is : To yield to a temptation or desire.As a noun binge
is a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.binge
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bender, jag, spree, tootDerived terms
* binge drinking * binge eating * binge watchingVerb
Derived terms
* binge and purgeSee also
*Anagrams
* *indulge
English
Verb
(indulg)- He looked at the chocolate but didn't indulge .
- I indulged in drinking on the weekend.
- Grandma indulges the kids with sweets.
- I love to indulge myself with beautiful clothes.
- Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
- to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
- persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners
- Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light / Indulge , dread Chaos, and eternal Night!