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3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
Children who overindulge in sweets often lose flesh, partly because an undue amount of sugar overtaxes the eliminative organs and upsets the bodily machinery.
Source: wiktionary
As the parent of one child, it may be most tempting for you to overindulge your youngster with things.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include glut, overeat, binge, bingeing, binges.
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