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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ate to excess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone has consumed more food than is considered healthy or appropriate.
Example: "After the holiday feast, I realized I had eaten to excess and felt uncomfortably full."
Alternatives: "overindulged" or "overate."
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He also partied, gambled and ate to excess.
Night Two I burned with high fever and dreamed of my grandmother and a cherry tree, the only fruit she ever ate to excess.
Families dressed in their finest clothes travelled from afar to take part in all the festivities and ate to excess: yam and chicken fried incandescent gold; spicy goat meat which would make your nose run; jollof rice and salad soaking in cream.
Ruth ate to excess, chased women with a "Ruthian" appetite, and guzzled beer during prohibition, when it was illegal to do so.
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It also includes a new binge-eating disorder, defined as eating to excess at least once a week over the previous three months.
It never eats to excess but only for its own survival at the rate of one seal every three months.
He likes to eat to excess and to drink in moderation.
In moderation, eggs are a healthy food; eaten to excess, they may not be.
The overweight often find it impossible to avoid eating to excess, and so the kilos continue to pile on.
Politicians, for almost two centuries, have left food production to the private sector, resulting in supermarket shelves that groan with stuff that, eaten to excess, can kill you.
"Many diet plans suggest drinking huge amounts of water with food," she said, to provide extra bulk and keep the person from eating to excess, but she said that most people's calorie-control mechanisms quickly compensated for such attempts to outsmart them.
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