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indulge

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Etymology

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FromLatinindulgeō(I indulge).

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indulge (third-person singular simple presentindulges,present participleindulging,simple past and past participleindulged)

  1. (intransitive, often followed by "in"): Toyield to atemptation ordesire.
    He looked at the chocolate but didn'tindulge.
    Iindulged in drinking on the weekend.
    • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, inRailway Magazine, page53:
      Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had beenindulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
    • 2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, inRAIL, number948, pages40–41:
      How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle andindulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?
  2. (transitive) Tosatisfy thewishes orwhims of.
    Grandmaindulges the kids with sweets.
    I love toindulge myself with beautiful clothes.
    • August 30, 1706,Francis Atterbury,a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
      Hope in another life implies that weindulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly.
    • 2013, Jocelyn Samara D.,Rain, volume 1,→ISBN, page193:
      "She constantly faked being sick, and perhaps mistakenly, Iindulged her more than I should have, pretending I couldn't tell. But I AM a teacher myself, so it's kind of hard to just let this slide."
    • 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, inThe Daily Telegraph (London):
      It’s the kind of scenario Peter Sellers might have dreamt up while brushing his teeth, and some of the comic set-pieces – including Nobby’s seduction of a fabulously overweight maid (Gabourey Sidibe) at a luxurious South African hotel – allow Baron Cohen toindulge his Sellersian fantasies to a previously unprecedented degree.
    • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, inThe Guardian[1]:
      Internet shopping invites you to gaze out upon the entire bazaar all at once and toindulge the merest whim
  3. Togive way to (ahabit ortemptation); to notoppose orrestrain.
    toindulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations
  4. Togrant anextension to thedeadline of apayment.
  5. Togrant as byfavour; tobestow inconcession, or incompliance with awish orrequest.
    • 1678,Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: [], London: [] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, forR[ichard] Royston, [],→OCLC:
      persuading us that something must beindulged to public manners
    • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, inThe Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. [], Dublin; London: [] A. Dodd,→OCLC:
      Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light /Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

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Translations

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to yield to a temptation
to satisfy the wishes or whims ofsee alsohumor,‎pander
to give way to (a habit or temptation), not to oppose or restrain
to grant extension to payment
to grant as by favour

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /inˈdul.d͡ʒe/
  • Rhymes:-uldʒe
  • Hyphenation:in‧dùl‧ge

Verb

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indulge

  1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofindulgere

Latin

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Verb

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indulgē

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofindulgeō
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