Indulge

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Indulged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Indulging .]
	1.	To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly. - Atterbury.
	2.	To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request. Persuading us that something must be indulged to public manners. - Jer. Taylor. Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! - Pope.
v. i.	1.	To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; - followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

Verb	1.	indulge - give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
	2.	indulge - yield (to); give satisfaction to Synonyms: pander, gratify
	3.	indulge - enjoy to excess Synonyms: luxuriate
	4.	indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil

accommodate with, adore, afford, appreciate, baby, bask, bask in, bay, be pleased with, bear, bear with, benignancy, benignity, blink at, brook, cater to, clemency, cocker, coddle, comply with, condone, connive at, cosset, countenance, courtesy, delight, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour, dispensation, eat up, endure, enjoy, favor, favor with, feast on, freak out on, furnish, gentleness, get high on, give way to, gloat over, gratify, groove on, have, heap upon, hear of, indulge in, indulge with, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, lavish upon, lenience, leniency, like, live high, live well, love, luxuriate, luxuriate in, mercifulness, mildness, minister to, mollycoddle, much, oblige, overlook, pamper, pander to, please, pour on, provide, provide for, put up with, regale, rejoice in, relish, revel, revel in, riot in, roll, roll in, rollick, savor, shower down upon, smack the lips, spoil, stand for, stomach, succumb to, suffer, supply, swim in, take pleasure in, tolerance, tolerate, toleration, treat to, wallow in, welter, wink at, yield to

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