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indulgeverb to give in to (a desire)the grandparents indulged the child's wishes to an extent that they never did with their own children cater (to), gratify, humor bask, luxuriate, revel, wallowcoddle, mollycoddle, pamper, spoildelight, please, pleasuresate, satiate, satisfy bridle, check, constrain, curb, inhibit, restrain, stifle to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedlyconventioneers who were obviously eager to indulge themselves in all of the vices that Las Vegas might offer abandon, deliver, give up, surrender, yield overdo, overindulgebask, luxuriate, revel, roll, wallow deny abstain (from), eschew, forbear, forgo(also forego), refrain (from)check, inhibit, restrain to treat with great or excessive careyou indulge those grandkids in ways you never did with your own kids baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, dandle, mollycoddle, nurse, pamper, spoil, wet-nurse cater (to), humorcontent, delight, gladden, gratify, mother, oblige, please, satisfyappease, mollify, pacify, placate, soothe abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, manhandle, mishandle, mistreat, misuse control, discipline, restrainoppressneglect, overlook, slightmolest, outrage, violateharass, harm, hurt, injure, oppress, persecute, torment, torture, victimize 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.indulged myself with food at the slightest excuse pamper implies inordinate gratification of desire for luxury and comfort with consequent enervating effect.pampered by the amenities of modern living humor stresses a yielding to a person's moods or whims.humored him by letting him tell the story spoil stresses the injurious effects on character by indulging or pampering.foolish parents spoil their children baby suggests excessive care, attention, or solicitude.babying students by grading too easily mollycoddle suggests an excessive degree of care and attention to another's health or welfare.refused to mollycoddle her malingering son ca. 1623 |