verb (gratifies, gratifying, gratified, gratified)
1 (written) to please or satisfy sb:
[VNtoinf] It gratified him to think that it was all his work. * [VN] I was gratified by their invitation.
2 [VN] (formal) to satisfy a wish, need, etc:
He only gave his consent in order to gratify her wishes.
gratified adjective [notusuallybeforenoun] ~ (at sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gratify is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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