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Bask vs Basking - What's the difference?

bask | basking |

As verbs the difference between bask and basking

is that bask is to bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat while basking is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun basking is

the act of one who basks.

bask

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
    • to bask in the sun
  • * Goldsmith
    • basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave.
  • (figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
    • I basked in her love.
    to bask in someone's favour
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table}}

    Related terms

    * abask

    basking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * basking shark

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who basks.
  • * 1999 , Linda Simon, William James Remembered
    • With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short

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