enjoy
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Is enjoy a Scrabble word?
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- Wordle Yes
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.Examples: "Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing."; "And we shall sit at endless feast, Enjoying each the other’s good; What vaster dream can hit the mood Of Love on earth?"; "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."Synonyms: appreciate, delight in, rejoice, relish, pleasure, feasttransitive
2. (transitive) To have the use or benefit of something.Examples: "I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health."; "that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers"; "Night and day were the same in this prison room, but Tommy's wrist-watch, which enjoyed a certain degree of accuracy, informed him that it was nine o'clock in the evening."Synonyms: rejoice intransitive
3. (intransitive, India) To be satisfied or receive pleasure.Examples: "I enjoyed a lot."Indiaintransitive
4. (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.Examples: "Never did thy Beautie[…]so enflame my sense With ardor to enjoy thee."Synonyms: coitizetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary