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bulimia

noun as in binge-purge syndrome

noun as in malnutrition

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Example Sentences

Binge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.

Others shared stories of friends who suffered from bulimia in an open secret.

Other risk factors include a history of sexual abuse and bulimia, both of which also affect more women than men.

She struggled with bulimia and, when she was anxious, would eat excessively.

Bruni candidly writes of his weight struggles, which included bulimia, laxative abuse, and junk-food binges.

It is a species of bulimia—an insatiable appetite, which "grows by what it feeds on."

From hence they marched through snow the whole of the following day, and many of the men contracted the bulimia.

In adults there is sometimes bulimia and a marked capriciousness of the appetite.

The patient may develop an enormous appetite—what we call bulimia—eating several times as much as she does ordinarily.

Hence they marched through snow the whole of the following day, and many of the men contracted the bulimia.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bulimia, such as: bingeing, binge-vomit syndrome, bulimarexia, bulimia nervosa, hyperphagia, and polyphagia.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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