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Meanings of luxuriate (luxuriating) in English

Catalan
gaudir de

Become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously.

gaudir de

Enjoy to excess.

Synonyms
Examples for "wanton"
Examples for "wanton"
1
Added to this, the Wallack takes an actual pleasure in wanton destruction.
Round About the Carpathians
2
Not to be slack and negligent; or loose, and wanton in thy
Meditations
3
Sometimes I spy her afar off; but the wanton comes and goes.
Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798
4
And there will remain only the wanton soul in the virgin body.'
The Magician
5
Did it make me a wanton to hope he might compliment me?
Lily of the Nile
Usage of luxuriating in English
1
She clasped that thought to her, luxuriating in it: her lover Henry.
The Secret Eleanor
2
This is a bath you will want to spend time luxuriating in.
The Irish Times
3
He was luxuriating before this with a long-stemmed pipe between his lips.
Joyce of the North Woods
4
I wrapped the velvet around me, luxuriating in the feel of it.
Club dead
5
Colin lay back on his elbows, luxuriating in warmth and relative solitude.
The comfort of strangers
6
This is a moment all right, after an interval, luxuriating in his words.
The Irish Times
7
He would have been back-slapping with his hit team, luxuriating in good times.
The Irish Times
8
She stood undressed luxuriating in the sense of freedom of body.
Java Head
9
Meanwhile, Mr. Reynolds had been luxuriating in a very unmistakable sense of injury.
Bressant: A Novel
10
He stretched his arms, luxuriating in the sublime blend of strangeness and familiarity.
Broken Circle
11
She washed his sex from her raw skin, luxuriating in everything, regretting nothing.
A reliable wife
12
She held it up, luxuriating in its warm red glow.
Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School
13
His men are luxuriating upon the best the country affords.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
14
I glanced around, then propped myself upright, luxuriating in the new absence of pain.
Woken furies
15
Rather than luxuriating in a Garden of Eden, the biospherians were like subsistence farmers.
The Guardian
16
He stayed for a moment, luxuriating in her full embrace.
The Mammoth Hunters
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Luxuriating through the time
Luxuriating across language varieties
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