LUXURIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does luxuriate mean? 

• LUXURIATE (verb)
  The verb LUXURIATE has 3 senses:

1. become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

2. enjoy to excess

3. thrive profusely or flourish extensively

  Familiarity information: LUXURIATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUXURIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they luxuriate    ... he / she / it luxuriates   
Past simple: luxuriated   
Past participle: luxuriated   
-ing form: luxuriating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

luxuriate; wanton

Hypernyms (to "luxuriate" is one way to...):

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

luxuriation (an activity that affords excessive pleasure and enjoyment)

luxury (something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity)

luxury (the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive)

luxury (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enjoy to excess

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

indulge; luxuriate

Context example:

She indulges in ice cream

Hypernyms (to "luxuriate" is one way to...):

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "luxuriate"):

surfeit (indulge (one's appetite) to satiety)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

luxuriation (an activity that affords excessive pleasure and enjoyment)

luxury (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Thrive profusely or flourish extensively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "luxuriate" is one way to...):

boom; expand; flourish; thrive (grow vigorously)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

luxuriant (produced or growing in extreme abundance)

 Context examples 

A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)