indulge, pamper, humor, spoil, baby, mollycoddle mean to show undue favor to a person's desires and feelings. indulge implies excessive compliance and weakness in gratifying another's or one's own desires.
INDULGE definition: 1. to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good…. Learn more.
If you indulge someone, you let them have or do what they want, even if this is not good for them. He did not agree with indulging children. [VERB noun]
- (when: intr, often foll by in) to yield to or gratify (a whim or desire for): to indulge a desire for new clothes; to indulge in new clothes. 2. (tr) to yield to the wishes of; pamper: to indulge a child. 3. (tr) to allow oneself the pleasure of something: at Christmas he liked to indulge himself. 4.
to yield to, satisfy, or gratify (desires, feelings, etc.): to indulge one's appetite for sweets. be lenient or permissive with: to indulge a child. to allow (oneself ) to follow one's will (usually fol. by in): to indulge oneself in reckless spending.
Definition of indulge verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Indulge is a verb that means "to give in to something," like when you indulge your craving for chocolate by eating a big piece of it. The original meaning of indulge is "to treat with unearned favor." That's why it doesn't mean the same as reward.
indulge meaning, definition, what is indulge: to let yourself do or have something tha...: Learn more.
indulge (third-person singular simple present indulges, present participle indulging, simple past and past participle indulged) (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.