Indulge: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To bend.

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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.

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Excess in eating and drinking.

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To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

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The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

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The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

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of Pamper

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An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

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To parboil, or soften by boiling.

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A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

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To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.

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To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.

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To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

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A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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