enjoy
/ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/ verb A1- To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something. · Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.· I've really enjoyed you and your sister showing me around.
- To have the use or benefit of something. · I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.
- To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun. · I enjoyed a lot.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
He/she/it enjoys · Past enjoyed · Past participle enjoyed · -ing form enjoying
Verb forms
- Base form
- enjoy
- He/she/it
- enjoys
- Past
- enjoyed
- Past participle
- enjoyed
- -ing form
- enjoying
From the library
It is full of fine oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend whom I would love to hear enjoying good eating.” The Horse replied, “If oats had been the food of wolves, you would never have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly.”
“Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
The Frog that lived in the pond warned his friend to change his residence and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food.
At last the Country Mouse, almost famished, said to his friend: “Although you have prepared for me so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself.
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