Usually means: Lying in warmth for pleasure.
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  1. basking: Merriam-Webster
  2. basking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. basking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Basking, basking: Wordnik
  5. basking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. basking: Wiktionary
  7. Basking, basking: Dictionary.com
  8. basking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Basking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Basking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Basking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. basking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. basking: FreeDictionary.org
  14. basking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Basking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (basking)

▸ noun:  The act of one who basks.

Similar:
relish, savour, savor, enjoy, bathing, aprication, balneation, soakage, indulgence, blooming, more...

Opposite:
shivering, shuddering, trembling, quivering

Phrases:
basking shark, basking sharks, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Basking in reflected glory, basking in, more...

Adjectives:
sun, little, large, more, stable, long, happy, busy, huge, old, lazy

Colors:
    amber,     honey,     bronze,     copper,     sienna, more...



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Similar:
relish, savour, savor, enjoy, bathing, aprication, balneation, soakage, indulgence, blooming, more...

Opposite:
shivering, shuddering, trembling, quivering

Phrases:
basking shark, basking sharks, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Basking in reflected glory, basking in, basking in all the glory, basking in the sun, basking in the glory, basking amid, more...

Adjectives:
sun, little, large, more, stable, long, happy, busy, huge, old, lazy

Colors:
    amber,     honey,     bronze,     copper,     sienna, more...



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