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overeating; eating too much
The act or state of eating more than is good for one's health or comfort. Used both for a single occasion (eating too much at one meal) and a habitual pattern.
食べ過ぎでお腹が痛い。
My stomach hurts from overeating.
食べ過ぎに注意してください。
Please be careful not to overeat.
年末年始は食べ過ぎと飲み過ぎで体重が増えてしまった。
Over the New Year holidays, I gained weight from overeating and drinking too much.
Noun form of 食べ過ぎる (to overeat), formed with the ます-stem + 過ぎ. The same pattern works with many other verbs.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 食べ過ぎに注意する: to watch out for overeating
- 食べ過ぎで太る: to put on weight from overeating
- 食べ過ぎと飲み過ぎ: overeating and overdrinking
SIMILAR PATTERN:
- 飲み過ぎ: drinking too much
- 寝過ぎ: oversleeping
- 使い過ぎ: overuse
- 働き過ぎ: overwork