INDULGE meaning: Yield to desires or whims

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word indulge:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

indulge: Merriam-Webster.com
indulge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
indulge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
indulge: Collins English Dictionary
indulge: Vocabulary.com
Indulge, indulge: Wordnik
indulge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
indulge: Wiktionary
indulge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
indulge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
indulge: Infoplease Dictionary
Indulge, indulge: Dictionary.com
indulge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Indulge (EP), Indulge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Indulge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
indulge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
indulge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
indulge: Free Dictionary
indulge: Mnemonic Dictionary
indulge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
indulge: Dictionary/thesaurus
indulge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
indulge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
indulge: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)

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indulge: Legal dictionary

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indulge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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indulge: Idioms

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indulge: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
▸ verb:  To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.
▸ verb:  To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
▸ verb:  To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

Similar:

gratify, luxuriate, spoil, pamper, cosset, coddle, mollycoddle, pander, baby, cocker, more...

Opposite:

abstain, restrain, deny, refuse

Types:

overindulge, pamper, coddle, spoil, baby, mollycoddle, more...

Phrases:

indulge in, over indulge, indulge to the utmost, self indulge, to indulge, more...

Adjectives:

many, few, rich, long, less, present, poor, young, latter, last, opposite

Colors:

burgundy, chocolate, gold, midnight blue, champagne, amethyst, plum, mahogany, sapphire

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