Synonyms:
indulge
Meaning: give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"
Synonyms:
gratify, pander, indulge
Meaning: yield (to); give satisfaction to
Synonyms:
indulge, luxuriate
Meaning: enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream"
Usage examples
Mr. Gladstone, too, could indulge in small talk.
But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized.
Think I'll indulge in one now, as long as we're stopping anyway."
She mumbled an excuse and fled to her room to indulge in a good cry.
"Well," said Link, rather gratified by this tribute to his power, "I shall indulge your fancy."
He was not a man to be in debt, or indulge himself with present pleasures to be paid for out of the funds of future years.
"Oh, very well," replied Jimfred; "this is a queer freak for our Boolooroo to indulge in, but he is always doing something absurd.
Gentlemen, you must excuse me for being over-philosophical; it's the result of forty years underground! Allow me to indulge my fancy.
They were away talking about love and pleasure, and those heart-throbbings in which her sister had so unfortunately been allowed to indulge.
But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities.