indulge
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(verb) enjoy to excess |
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Synonyms: luxuriate |
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Related Words: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, surfeit, use up, wipe out |
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(verb) give free rein to; "The write indulged in metaphorical language" |
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Related Words: wallow |
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(verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to |
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Synonyms: gratify, pander |
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Related Words: cater, humor, humour, ply, provide, sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats, spree, supply |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" |
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Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
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Related Words: do by, handle, treat |
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