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Enjoy

//ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something. transitive

    "Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing."

  2. 2
    take delight in wordnet
  3. 3
    To have the use or benefit of something. transitive

    "I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health."

  4. 4
    have benefit from wordnet
  5. 5
    To be satisfied or receive pleasure; to have fun. India, intransitive

    "I enjoyed a lot."

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  1. 6
    derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in wordnet
  2. 7
    To have sexual intercourse with. transitive

    "Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee."

  3. 8
    get pleasure from wordnet
  4. 9
    have for one's benefit wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English enjoyen, from Old French enjoier, anjoier, enjoer (“to give joy, receive with joy, rejoice”), equivalent to en- + joy.

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