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Bask   /bæsk/   Listen
Bask

verb
(past & past part. basked; pres. part. basking)
1.
Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in.  Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour.
2.
Be exposed.






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"Bask" Quotes from Famous Books



... not a little bird that wings Its airy flight on high, In forest bowers, that sweetly sings So blithe in spring as I. I love the fields, the budding flowers, The trees and gushing streams; I bathe my brow in balmy showers, And bask in sunny beams. ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... can't go, but I shall be delighted to bask in the smiles of this modern Semiramis a while," answered Frank. "Then, too," he added, "she may convert me to suffrage, which living in Colorado among suffragists for two years has failed ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens

... to bathe every day. We swam and splashed one another, and in that buoyant water I seemed to become something lighter and stronger than a man. And at last we came out dripping and rejoicing and raced among the rocks. And then I put on a dry bathing-dress, and we sat to bask in the sun, and presently I nodded, resting my head against her knee, and she put her hand upon my hair and stroked it softly and I dozed. And behold! as it were with the snapping of the string of a violin, ...
— Twelve Stories and a Dream • H. G. Wells

... swaying, sparkling leaves; tapirs wandered out into the open places; and the sinuous, scale-covered bodies of snakes glided from their hiding-places under the rotting leaves and prostrate tree-trunks and sought the splashes of sunlight for a reviving bask in the warm rays. ...
— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

... king, who lies silent in the palace, was not my puppet. I wished to make him great, and bask in his greatness. But in that I failed; because Leopold was a poet and a philosopher, and the greatness of earthly things did not concern him. Leopold and I were dupes of Austria, as you are at this moment, Madame. So long ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath


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