indulge

Other forms of indulge

past tense

indulged·

present participle

indulging·

third person

indulges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indulge

What does indulge mean?

indulge means "give free rein to". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indulge?

indulge has 2 syllables: in-dulge. The stress falls on "dulge". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʌldʒ/.

What is another word for indulge?

Close synonyms include gratify, pander, luxuriate, pamper, featherbed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indulge a common word?

indulge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.