Definition of indulges in English

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Verb indulges, indulging, indulged
indulge - enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream"
		luxuriate
		deplete, run through, use up, eat up, exhaust, consume, eat, wipe out finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
		surfeit indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
indulge - give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
		wallow delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"
indulge - treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"
		pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil
		do by, handle, treat touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise"
indulge - yield (to); give satisfaction to
		gratify, pander
		cater, supply, ply, provide supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
		humor, humour put into a good mood
		spree engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping
		sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats live promiscuously and self-indulgently

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indulge (v. t.)
To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
indulge (v. t.)
to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
indulge (v. t.)
to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.
indulge (v. t.)
To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
indulge (v. i.)
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.

indulge
in-dulj′, v.t. to yield to the wishes of: not to restrain, as the will, &c.—v.i. (with in) to gratify one's appetites freely.—ns. Indul′gence, gratification: forbearance of present payment: in the R.C. Church, a remission, to a repentant sinner, of the temporal punishment which remains due after the sin and its eternal punishment have been remitted (Plenary indulgences, such as remit all; Partial, a portion of the temporal punishment due to sin; Temporal, those granted only for a time; Perpetual or Indefinite, those which last till revoked; Personal, those granted to a particular person or confraternity; Local, those gained only in a particular place): exemption of an individual from an ecclesiastical law.—adjs. Indul′gent, yielding to the wishes of others: compliant: not severe; Indulgen′tial.—adv. Indul′gently.—ns. Indul′ger; Indult′, a license granted by the Pope, authorising something to be done which the common law of the Church does not sanction.—Declaration of Indulgence, a proclamation of James II. in 1687, by which he promised to suspend all laws tending to force the conscience of his subjects. [L. indulgēre, to be kind to—in, in, and prob. L. dulcis, sweet.]