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UK
/lʌɡʒjˈʊɹɪˌeɪt/
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VERB
- thrive profusely or flourish extensively
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enjoy to excess
She indulges in ice cream - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
How To Use luxuriate In A Sentence
- The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
- You can luxuriate in the coffee's aroma and listen to the soothing bubbling sound from the bar as another jug of milk is frothed.
- At night, luxuriate at charming inns, sampling Scotch whisky.
- R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
- Lie back and luxuriate in the scented oil.
- Instead, we listened to tributes that limned his capacity to touch and generosity of spirit, his impact, his love of words, his insatiable curiosity and, most importantly, the empathy and warmth that fueled his writing and the relationships in which he luxuriated. Andrew S. Doctoroff: The Last Lecture Given by Our Good Friend Jeff Zaslow
- We've been playing for 25 years, and we played very intensively together, and then we invited people to join us, so I have luxuriated in trios and quartets and quintets.
- Unabashedly physical, the surfaces of Bhavsar's canvases luxuriate in a granular abundance of color.
- Flexing my cramped limbs and wiggling my toes, I luxuriated in my undisciplined stance. Exit the Actress
- In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins. When I Close My Eyes (rev)