Crossword-Solution: INDULGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| INDULGE | anagram | DUELING, ELUDING |
We have 89 clues for the answer “INDULGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| allow oneself pleasure | 1 answer |
| Allow oneself the pleasure | 1 answer |
| Yield to desire | 1 answer |
| What to do on Thanksgiving | 1 answer |
| Treat oneself to excess | 1 answer |
| Pamper oneself | 1 answer |
| Allow oneself to satisfy a whim | 1 answer |
| Give rein to | 1 answer |
| Allow yourself the pleasure | 1 answer |
| Be permissive with | 1 answer |
| Enjoy to excess | 2 answers |
| Satisfy (a desire) | 2 answers |
| Yield (to) | 4 answers |
| Spoil rotten | 4 answers |
| Fuss over | 5 answers |
| COCKER | 7 answers |
| BE benevolent | 11 answers |
| cater | 11 answers |
| Regale | 11 answers |
| BE LENIENT WITH | 12 answers |
| featherbed | 13 answers |
| BE lax | 13 answers |
| splurge | 14 answers |
| cosset | 14 answers |
| go-easy | 14 answers |
| be lenient | 16 answers |
| Molly-coddle | 16 answers |
| Go easy | 16 answers |
| ___ mattress | 17 answers |
| CATER (TO) | 17 answers |
| Wallow | 19 answers |
| Luxuriate | 20 answers |
| Bask | 21 answers |
| Give in | 21 answers |
| Over-indulge | 22 answers |
| Pamper | 23 answers |
| Coddle | 28 answers |
| BE patient | 31 answers |
| Letting | 31 answers |
| MOVE merrily | 31 answers |
| humanize | 32 answers |
| Gratify | 33 answers |
| waes hal | 33 answers |
| memorialise | 33 answers |
| beat it up | 34 answers |
| have a party | 36 answers |
| roister | 36 answers |
| Luxuriate (in) | 36 answers |
| welter | 37 answers |
| drink deep | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INDULGE (5)
What possessed her to indulge in such a performance in the sight of the sparrows, blackbirds, and unperceived farmer who were alone its spectators—whether the smile began as a factitious one, to test her capacity in that art, nobody knows; it ended certainly in a real smile.
Hackers who don't indulge in {USENET} consider it a huge waste of time and {bandwidth}; fans of old adventure games such as {ADVENT} and {Zork} consider {MUD}s to be glorified chat systems devoid of atmosphere or interesting puzzles; hackers who are willing to devote endless hours to USENET or MUDs consider {IRC} to be a *real* waste of time; IRCies think MUDs might be okay if there weren't all those silly puzzles in the way.
This fact caused Jane to indulge in further speculation, and it taxed her imagination to picture how this beautiful ornament came into the possession of a wild and savage creature of the unexplored jungles of Africa.
Prince John, indeed, and those who courted his pleasure by imitating his foibles, were apt to indulge to excess in the pleasures of the trencher and the goblet; and indeed it is well known that his death was occasioned by a surfeit upon peaches and new ale.
For two days he roamed about, killing, eating, drinking and sleeping wherever inclination and the means to indulge it occurred simultaneously.
Quotes with INDULGE (3)
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy — a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values th…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).