Indulge is a verb that means "to give in to something," like when you indulge your craving for chocolate by eating a big piece of it.The original meaning of indulge is "to treat with unearned favor." That's why it doesn't mean the same as reward. Instead, when you indulge, you enjoy or take part in something just because you want to — like indulging in a celebrity gossip magazine: you know you should be doing something more constructive, but you don't care. When you indulge someone else, you go along with whatever they want to do.Definitions of indulgeverb yield (to); give satisfaction tosynonyms:gratify, panderverb treat with excessive indulgencesynonyms:baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, mollycoddle, pamper, spoilverb enjoy to excess“She indulges in ice cream”synonyms:luxuriateverb give free rein to“The writer indulged in metaphorical language”v.放纵；沉迷；满足（欲望、兴趣等）；听任ExamplesIf any man will indulge himself in this Speculation, he need not quarrel with revealed Religion upon such an account.倘若有人沉溺于这种思辨之中，便无需基于此等缘由与天启宗教发生争执。

During that time Jefferson was too busy to indulge in retrospective fretting over the loss of a friend.在那段时间里，杰斐逊忙得不可开交，根本无暇沉溺于因失去朋友而产生的伤感之中。

A small voice in the back of my head still urges me not to open it, not to indulge whatever it is that Hideo might be trying to convince me of.脑海深处仍有个微弱的声音在劝我：别打开它，别去理会秀人（Hideo）可能试图说服我的任何事情。