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# bask

«bask» in Mova's school dictionary: **To lie or sit enjoying warmth, especially sunlight** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (bask, basks, basked, basking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To lie or sit enjoying warmth, especially sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#m1)

2) To enjoy attention, praise or success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science about animals: lizards and snakes bask in the sun to warm up because they are cold-blooded. In stories: bask in praise or glory. Phrases: bask in the sun, bask in the glory.

### examples

- The lizard basked on a warm rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x1)
- Seals basked on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x2)
- The cat basked in the sunshine by the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x3)
- She basked in her teacher's praise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x4)
- The team basked in the glory of their win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x5)
- Snakes bask to warm their bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x6)
- Time passed on, and one morning Gon lay before the house door, basking in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/#x7)

### note

Usually "bask in". Basking shark: a huge, gentle shark that swims near the surface. Not "bath" or "bake", though the warmth idea is similar.

### In the corpora

- [Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bask» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bask/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.