how to pronounce indulge

/ɪnˈdʌldʒ/

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indulge is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of indulge in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… animal standards dolphins indulge in all …”

meaning of indulge

To indulge means to gratify one's own desires or tastes to the point of excess.

indulge frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word indulge occurs in english on average 5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics indulge can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that indulge can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;