Word Meanings - GLUTTONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to gormandize. Hallywell.

GORMANDIZE
To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.
EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
GORMANDIZER
A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.