Synonyms of the word

indulge

• v. (intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy the wishes or whims of.
• v. To give way to (a habit or temptation); not to oppose or restrain.
• v. To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.
• v. To grant as by favour; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

baby

• n. A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
• n. Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such…
• n. Unborn young; a fetus.
• n. A person who is immature or infantile.
• n. Term of endearment for a girlfriend or boyfriend or spouse.
• n. (informal) A form of address to a man or a woman considered to be attractive.
• n. A pet project or responsibility.
• n. The lastborn of a family.
• n. An affectionate term for anything.
• n. (archaic) A small image of an infant; a doll.
• adj. Of a child: very young; of the age when he or she would be termed a baby or infant.
• adj. Of an animal: young.
• adj. Intended for babies.
• adj. (of vegetables, etc.) Picked when small and immature (as in baby corn, baby potatoes).
• v. (transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.
• v. (transitive) To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over.

cater

• v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
• v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
• n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
• v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
• n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.

cocker

• n. (dated) One who breeds gamecocks or arranges cockfights.
• n. (dated) One who hunts gamecocks.
• n. A rustic high shoe, half-boots.
• n. (Britain, informal) Friend, mate.
• v. To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).

coddle

• v. (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
• v. (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
• v. (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
• n. An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes…

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

cosset

• v. (transitive) To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
• n. A pet; (especially) a pet lamb.
• n. Someone indulged or cosseted.

deplete

• v. To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
• v. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or…

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

exhaust

• v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
• v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
• v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
• v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
• n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
• n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
• n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
• n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
• n. exhaust gas.
• adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

featherbed

• n. A mattress stuffed with feathers.
• v. (transitive) To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.

gratify

• v. To please.
• v. To make content, to satisfy.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

luxuriate

• v. (intransitive) To enjoy luxury.

mollycoddle

• n. (now rare) A person, especially a man or a boy, who is pampered and overprotected.
• v. (transitive) To be overprotective and indulgent toward; to pamper.

pamper

• v. To treat with excessive care, attention or indulgence.
• v. (dated) To feed luxuriously.

pander

• n. A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. (Later panderer.).
• n. An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
• n. An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
• n. (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
• v. (intransitive) To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
• v. (intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in the gratification…

ply

• n. A layer of material.
• n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
• n. (colloquial) Plywood.
• n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
• n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
• v. (intransitive) To flex.
• v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
• v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
• v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
• v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
• v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
• v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.