eat to excess

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Almost invariably they lack simplicity of menu, and, because of the variety supplied and the example of others, there is a tendency to eat to excess.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Mr. Stuart was fearful that in their famished state they would eat to excess and injure themselves.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington

Glutt′onise, to eat to excess, like a glutton.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

An American physician remarks, "For every reeling drunkard that disgraces our Country, it contains one hundred gluttons;—persons, I mean, who eat to excess, and suffer in consequence."

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

One might eat to excess, or drink to excess; yet eating and drinking are both useful in their way.

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher