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Noun indulging has 1 sense
- indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring - the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
--1 is a kind of gratification
--1 has particulars:
Verb indulge has 4 senses
- indulge - give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- gratify, pander, indulge - yield (to); give satisfaction to
--2 is one way to provide, supply, ply, cater
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot indulge Sue
- indulge, luxuriate - enjoy to excess
--3 is one way to consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
Sample sentence:
They indulge themselves
- pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
--4 is one way to treat, handle, do by
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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