暴食
bào shí
Pinyin

Definition

暴食
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bào shí
  1. to eat too much
  2. to binge

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

美食
měi shí
  1. 1 culinary delicacy
  2. 2 fine food
  3. 3 gourmet food
零食
líng shí
  1. 1 between-meal nibbles
  2. 2 snacks
风暴
fēng bào
  1. 1 storm
  2. 2 violent commotion
  3. 3 fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
食
shí
  1. 1 to eat
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 animal feed
  4. 4 eclipse
食品
shí pǐn
  1. 1 foodstuff
  2. 2 food
  3. 3 provisions
  4. 4 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (20)

一暴十寒
yī pù shí hán
  1. 1 one day's sun, ten days' frost (idiom, from Mencius); fig. to work for a bit then skimp
  2. 2 sporadic effort
  3. 3 short attention span
三旬九食
sān xún jiǔ shí
  1. 1 lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
  3. 3 in dire straits
不畏强暴
bù wèi qiáng bào
  1. 1 not to submit to force (idiom); to defy threats and violence
人为财死，鸟为食亡
rén wèi cái sǐ , niǎo wèi shí wáng
  1. 1 lit. human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. man will do anything in his means to become rich
因噎废食
yīn yē fèi shí
  1. 1 lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
  2. 2 to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk

Sample Sentences

番泻叶不太好吧！前段时间有个新闻，就是说一个女中学生喝番泻叶导致内分泌紊乱，总是暴饮暴食，然后拼命喝番泻叶,最后得了强迫症。
fānxièyè bù tài hǎo ba ！qiánduànshíjiān yǒu ge xīnwén ，jiùshìshuō yī ge nǚ zhōngxuéshēng hē fānxièyè dǎozhì nèifēnmì wěnluàn ，zǒngshì bàoyǐnbàoshí ，ránhòu pīnmìng hē fānxièyè ,zuìhòu dé le qiǎngpò zhèng 。
Senna leaf isn't the greatest, I don't think. There was something in the news recently-- they said a middle-school student took so much senna leaf that her endocrine system got all messed up. She was always eating and drinking way too much, and then taking a ton of senna leaf. In the end, she got obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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