Definition of "enjoy"

enjoy

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present enjoys, present participle enjoying, simple past and past participle enjoyed
1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
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  Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
  2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.
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  that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Numbers 36:8
  This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
  1988, Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
3. (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.
4. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
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  Never did thy Beautie […] so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Definition of "enjoy"

enjoy

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