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gratify

verb
/ˈɡrætɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From French gratifier, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”).

  1. derived from grātificō
  2. borrowed from gratifier

Definitions

  1. To please.

  2. To make content

    To make content; to satisfy.

    • gratify the critics
    • gratify the voters

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gratify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01gratify02please03pleasure04gratification05gratifying06satisfying07gratifies

A definitional loop anchored at gratify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at gratify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA