Definition: (verb) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
Synonyms: binge, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff.
Usage: After June all the little Court Society of Pumpernickel used to … make for a hundred watering-places, where they drank at the wells, … rushed with hundreds of their kind to gormandize at the tables d'hote, and idled away the summer.
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