overindulging

present participle of overindulge

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overindulging
Verb
  • And Carys is certainly embracing shopping her mom's previous red carpet picks — even to the point of possibly overdoing it.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike horror movies built on shadowy boogeymen bouncing out of the dark, The Witch's tone stays quiet, swarming around themes of bewitchery, black magic, and wickedness without overdoing it.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But Septime Webre’s choreography is supposed to have the air of wild and sometimes frenzied social dancing, of Charlestons and Fox Trots and Black Bottoms, of indulging the glorious excesses of the 1920s before the greedier side of the American Dream comes crashing down a few years later.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The other people Ye tries to big-foot into indulging his perverse Peter Pan complex fare more poorly.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Labour will be very wary of abandoning its election manifesto promise not to raise income tax, however, and any moves to do so will leave the party wide open to attacks from opponents such as the Conservatives and increasingly popular party, Reform.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps the biggest name to distance itself from BHV is Disney, with Disneyland Paris abandoning plans to design BHV’s famous Christmas window displays this year, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Overindulging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overindulging. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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