indulge

Verb

• treat with excessive indulgence
  • grandparents often pamper the children
    
  • Let's not mollycoddle our students!
    

• enjoy to excess
  • She indulges in ice cream
    

• yield (to); give satisfaction to

• give free rein to
  • The writer indulged in metaphorical language
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pamper , featherbed , cosset , cocker , baby , coddle , mollycoddle , spoil , luxuriate , gratify , pander