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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bask
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask in...reflected glory
▪ I certainly don’t want to bask in any reflected glory.
bask/bathe in the glory of sth (=enjoy the fame and admiration you get)
▪ Challenor basked in the glory of his achievement.
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■ ADVERB
still
▪ The paper-maker, Bowater, still basking in an optimistic profits forecast for the full year, firmed 7p to 507p.
▪ For the moment, still basking a bit in the glow of the parade, I feel half hopeful.
▪ The prime minister is still basking in the success of last month's conference on the ozone layer.
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
■ NOUN
glory
▪ Another of my promotions, if you will allow me to bask a little in his glory.
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
▪ She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
glow
▪ He would demand descriptions, basking in the glow, pausing to explain his technique like a tennis pro.
▪ For one brief, shining moment, Edwin and his managers basked in the glow of beating back a competitive challenge.
▪ The woodstove is throwing off heat, and I bask in its glow.
sun
▪ The lizards seem to use their fringes to absorb heat while basking in the sun.
▪ Shoppers peered into gallery windows and children basked in the afternoon sun, licking ice cream cones.
▪ As they bask under the twin suns they hear noises coming from the Visualiser.
▪ You are most at risk if you strip off to bask in blazing sun after a year covered up.
sunshine
▪ During the summer, adders can often be found basking in the morning sunshine.
▪ For almost everyone else, Royal Lytham was a pussycat basking in the sunshine.
▪ Choose a spot where they can bask in plenty of sunshine each day.
▪ Wentworth basked in sunshine, the fairways rolled before them, inviting and velvety.
▪ The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank, basking in the warm sunshine.
▪ Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask/bathe in sb's/sth's (reflected) glory
▪ A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
▪ And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory. % % % Overreaction?
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory.
▪ Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
▪ She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
▪ His opponent, on the other hand, can hop around the country on Air Force One, basking in presidential publicity.
▪ Mr Haynes is very proud, and is basking in the limelight.
▪ So everyone is basking in the increased popularity of the game.
▪ Telling the story, Savelli grinned, basking in the jittery afterglow of it.
▪ The woodstove is throwing off heat, and I bask in its glow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bask

Bask \Bask\, v. t. To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.

Basks at the fire his hairy strength.
--Milton.

Bask

Bask \Bask\ (b[.a]sk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Basked (b[.a]skt); p. pr. & vb. n. Basking.] [OScand. ba[eth]ask to bathe one's self, or perh. bakask to bake one's self, sk being reflexive. See Bath, n., Bake, v. t.] To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.

Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave.
--Goldsmith.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bask

late 14c., basken "to wallow (in blood)," with loss of middle syllable, from Old Norse baðask "to bathe oneself," reflexive of baða "bathe" (see bathe). Modern meaning "soak up a flood of warmth" is apparently due to Shakespeare's use of the word in reference to sunshine in "As You Like It" (1600). Related: Basked; basking.

Wiktionary
bask

vb. 1 To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. 2 (context figurative English) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").

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WordNet
bask

  1. v. derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in; "She relished her fame and basked in her glory" [syn: enjoy, relish, savor, savour]

  2. be exposed; "The seals were basking in the sun"

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Wikipedia
Bäsk

Bäsk (Swedish for "bitter") is a Swedish style spiced liquor flavored with wormwood ("malört" in Swedish). Sweden is one of the few countries that has never banned absinthe or other wormwood-flavored liquors.

In the United States, the Chicago-based brand Jeppson's Malört is one of the more well-known versions of the liquor.

Bäsk is said to be good for digestion, and therefore is traditionally associated with fatty foods.

When bäsk is unavailable, it can be substituted with vodka that has been infused with sprigs of wormwood.

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Usage examples of "bask".

Don Tarquinio lay astretch on the Persian rug, basking in the firelight with superb indifference to the possible ill-humour of Lady Anne.

Savage in a powder-blue suit with shoulder pads which would not have disgraced an American foot baller She was firmly ensconced in the one easy chair, basking in a pale ray of sunlight which cut across the room and which made her earrings sparkle.

It had driven their ATV across the mountains and down to the Penskava farm in the uplands above Basking Springs.

He stood, silently absorbing her like a plant basking in the rays of the sun.

Hunkapa Aub sprawled nearby, basking gloriously in the heat of midday.

They found Shimoda there, lying on a straining imitation-wood lounge, basking in the sun like a beached beluga.

The Autothor blazed briefly as it addressed the contented humans who lay on the shore of the artificial ocean, basking in the warm heat of an artificial sun.

Then all things around them, below and above, Were basking as now in the sunshine of love-- In the days that are gone, by this sweet-flowing stream.

After a while of basking in pleasant silence in the spring sun, as if she had just that instant recalled their conversation, she turned back to him.

The ranger nodded, and gradually, as he dismissed the negative assumptions and began basking in the reality of the situation, a smile widened across his handsome face.

Gwaltney had found himself basking in the effervescence of her presence.

The festoons of lead-ropes, saddles, saddlebags, stirrups, surcingles and girths, reins, bits and bridles, martingales, cruppers, and breastplates about his ears were disturbed only by a scuttling of serpiginous rock-lizards that were in the habit of basking daily on the outer walls.

Only the lizards--they lived in chinks of the crumbling adobe and in interstices of the sidewalk--remained without, motionless, as if stuffed, their eyes closed to mere slits, basking, stupefied with heat.

Secure on our hill, undriven by any task-master, provided with food in plenty, they basked for hours, lying flat on the back, and played exaggerated pranks, sometimes in a languid spirit of ease and sometimes with the greatest activity of movement.

Their greatness hath perished from them, they sleep amidst ruins, their palaces and their shrines are tombs, the serpent coils in the grass of their streets, the lizard basks in their solitary halls.