indulge

Meaning of indulge

verb
  1. allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of.
    we indulged in a cream tea
  2. allow (someone) to enjoy something desired.
    a luxury service used to indulge the chief executive

early 17th century (in the sense ‘treat with excessive kindness’): from Latin indulgere ‘give free rein to’.

Information about indulge

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of indulge is: indulges.
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Hyphenation of indulge

in-dulge

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • indulge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

indulge synonyms

Meaning gratify:

gratify, pander

Meaning luxuriate:

luxuriate

Meaning pamper:

pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil

Meaning gratify the wishes of (someone) to an excessive extent:

overindulge

Meaning be overprotective towards:

nanny

Meaning look after or be overprotective towards:

nursemaid

Meaning look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so:

mother

Meaning treat (someone) with affection or favouritism; pamper:

pet

Meaning comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be:

humour

indulge antonyms

Meaning make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:

stifle

Anagrams of indulge

dueling, eluding

Words that rhyme with indulge

saulge, Bulge, bulge, infrabulge, outbulge, suprabulge, overindulge, preindulge, reindulge, effulge, refulge, emulge, promulge, voulge, divulge, evulge, redivulge

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