overindulge
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many well formed and well fed bodies over-indulge in sensuality, take little or no exercise, and remain sickly throughout life ; many well formed minds, over-indulge in mere gossip, frivolous conversations, and reading novels, take no serious thought or study, and remain common-place through life; or worse than common-place, being more or less intensely perverted in proportion to original endowments of mental capacity."
- "Children who overindulge in sweets often lose flesh, partly because an undue amount of sugar overtaxes the eliminative organs and upsets the bodily machinery."
- "As the parent of one child, it may be most tempting for you to overindulge your youngster with things."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English indulge English overindulge From over- + indulge.