gratify

v. மகிழ்வி, தாராளச்சலுகை அளி, விட்டுக்கொடுத்து ஆறுதலளி, இசைவாக நடத்தி மகிழச்செய், உகந்தன செய்து உவப்பூட்டு, மனநிறைவடையச்செய், விருப்பம் நிறைவேற்று, அவா நிறைவுசெய், மன ஆறுதலடைவி, நலஞ்செய், நன்றிக் கடப்படுத்து, கையுறை கொடு, கைக்கூலி அளி, பரிசளி, ஊதியம் வழங்கு.

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Grat"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gratified; p. pr. & vb. n. Gratifying.] Etym: [F. gratifier, L. gratificari; gratus pleasing + - ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.] 1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. [Obs.] It remains . . . To gratify his noble service. Shak. Syn. -- To indulge; humor please; delight; requite; recompense. -- To Gratify, Indulge, Humor. Gratify, is the generic term, and has reference simply to the pleasure communicated. To indulge a person implies that we concede something to his wishes or his weaknesses which he could not claim, and which had better, perhaps, be spared. To humor is to adapt ourselves to the varying moods, and, perhaps, caprices, of others. We gratify a child by showing him the sights of a large city; we indulge him in some extra expense on such an occasion; we humor him when he is tired and exacting.