indulge
1. give free rein to (Freq. 2)
- The writer indulged in metaphorical language
• Derivationally related forms:
indulgence
• Hyponyms:
wallow
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
2. yield (to);
give satisfaction to (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
gratify, pander
• Derivationally related forms:
indulgence, indulging, panderer (for: pander), gratification (for: gratify)
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Hyponyms:
humor, humour, spree, sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
- Sam cannot indulge Sue
3. enjoy to excess (Freq. 1)
- She indulges in ice cream
• Syn:
luxuriate
• Derivationally related forms:
luxuriation (for: luxuriate), luxury (for: luxuriate), indulgence
• Hypernyms:
consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete,
exhaust, run through, wipe out
• Hyponyms:
surfeit
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They indulge themselves
4. treat with excessive indulgence
- grandparents often pamper the children
- Let's not mollycoddle our students!
• Syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, spoil
• Derivationally related forms:
indulging, indulgence, spoiler (for: spoil), mollycoddler (for: mollycoddle), mollycoddle (for: mollycoddle), coddler (for: coddle), baby (for: baby), pamperer (for: pamper), pampering (for: pamper)
• Hypernyms:
treat, handle, do by
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
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