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UK
/bjʊlˈɪmɪk/
]
[ US /bjuˈɫɪmɪk, buˈɫɪmɪk/ ]
[ US /bjuˈɫɪmɪk, buˈɫɪmɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a person suffering from bulimia
ADJECTIVE
- suffering from bulimia
How To Use bulimic In A Sentence
- Drug addicts, alcoholics, bulimics, anorexics, and sex addicts line up to claim social causes of their problems.
- Some of the youngest sufferers are the children of anorexics and bulimics, many of whom raise their families with bizarre attitudes towards food.
- Erin had been a very thin and somewhat sickly girl, supposedly anorexic or bulimic.
- Can you even be anorexic and bulimic at the same time?
- Bulimics purge by vomiting, strict dieting, fasting (not eating), exercising, or by taking laxatives.
- Drug addicts, alcoholics, bulimics, anorexics, and sex addicts line up to claim social causes of their problems.
- Or keep going if you’re bulimic.
- Although both bulimic and anorectic patients have abnormal eating habits and often exercise excessively, bulimia can be determined by the habit of binge eating and purging.
- Women with bulimic or anorexic female relatives are four to five times more likely to develop the disorder, and twin studies reveal that the genetic risk factor may be as high as 58 percent.
- Bulimics tend to be impulsive and more apt to abuse alcohol and drugs than average.