Word.ws English Dictionary

over-indulge

over-indulge is the alternative spelling of overindulge.

Meaning of overindulge

Verb

overindulge (third-person singular simple present overindulges, present participle overindulging, simple past and past participle overindulged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To indulge to excess.
    • 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...1871, Hugh Doherty, Organic Philosophy; Or, Man's True Place in Nature...: Outlines of biology ..., Trübner & Co., pages 448–449
    Synonyms:
    orgy

Forms of over-indulge

third-person singular presentover-indulges
present participleover-indulging
past participleover-indulged
pastover-indulged

Questions about over-indulge

What is over-indulge the alternative spelling of?
Over-indulge is the alternative spelling of overindulge.

Words near over-indulge in the dictionary

  1. over-indebtedness
  2. over-index
  3. over-indexed
  4. over-indexes
  5. over-indexing
  6. over-indulge
  7. over-indulged
  8. over-indulges
  9. over-indulging
  10. over-industrious
  11. over-insolent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: over-indulge (page history and authors); overindulge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “over-indulge.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/over-indulge. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.