Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To expose oneself to pleasant warmth.
  • intransitive verb To take great pleasure or satisfaction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as bash.
  • Bitter.
  • To bathe, especially in warm water (and hence in blood, etc.).
  • To lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth; luxuriate in the genial heat or rays of anything: as, to bask in the sunshine.
  • Figuratively, to be at ease and thriving under benign or gratifying influences: as, to bask in the favor of a king or of one's lady-love.
  • To expose to genial warmth; suffuse with agreeable heat.
  • noun Emitted warmth; a genial radiation or suffusion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
  • transitive verb To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
  • verb be exposed

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English basken.]

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From Old Norse baðask ("to take a bath").

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Examples

  • If it was a good decision then I’ll high 5 myself in bask in an adulation of my own making. lol

    Confessions Of A Bad Mother | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • It was made in a plain "bask" with buttons down the front, and a plain, full skirt, over which she wore a white, starched apron, with a row of insertion and a flounce of crocheted lace.

    The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • It was made in a plain "bask" with buttons down the front, and a plain, full skirt, over which she wore a white, starched apron, with a row of insertion and a flounce of crocheted lace.

    The Second Chance 1910

  • Neither does Bragg "bask" in the celebrity style of which he is anonymously accused.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Neither does Bragg "bask" in the celebrity style of which he is anonymously accused.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • "I never got too euphoric for the great ratings or too low on the bad numbers because when there is no season and one is doing live TV 51 weeks a year there is simply no time to" bask "in any glory or to feel sorry for one's self when the ratings aren't what one wants."

    PWTorch.com 2010

  • When Senate Democrats 'bask' in their 'success' on this bill, all of us should know the feeling of that screw as it enters our hearts and our wallets.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • When Senate Democrats 'bask' in their 'success' on this bill, all of us should know the feeling of that screw as it enters our hearts and our wallets.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • So Spurrier had plenty of reason to bask in one of the biggest victories of his illustrious career.

    South Carolina Stuns Alabama, 35-21 AP 2010

  • Many Repubs and Tea Partyers bask in their issue-free campaigns, betting that the distemper of the electorate will carry them through.

    Michael Sigman: Repubs Winning, Dems Whining Michael Sigman 2010

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