indulge
Meaning of indulge
verb
- allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of.
we indulged in a cream tea
- 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:
Meaning luxuriate:
Meaning pamper:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil
Meaning gratify the wishes of (someone) to an excessive extent:
Meaning be overprotective towards:
Meaning look after or be overprotective towards:
Meaning look after (someone) kindly and protectively, sometimes excessively so:
Meaning treat (someone) with affection or favouritism; pamper:
Meaning comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be:
indulge antonyms
Meaning make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:
Anagrams of indulge
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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