indulge
to allow oneself or another to enjoy a pleasure or to satisfy a desire without restraint
Word origin: From Latin indulgere, to be lenient.
Indulge in a sentence
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She allowed herself to indulge in a second slice of cake to celebrate the occasion.
The biography suggests the monarch was permitted to indulge every whim, however costly to the treasury.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “indulge” well
Indulge means to gratify a desire without restraint, in oneself or another, and it contrasts with deny, restrain, and abstain.
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