Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
lavish of money; lavish of praise
To give out extremely generously; to squander.
They lavished money on the dinner.
To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
From Middle English laves, lavas, lavage (“extravagant, wasteful, prodigal”), from lavas (“excessive abundance”), from Old French lavasse, lavache (“torrent of rain”); possibly later conflated in some...
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They lavished him with praise.