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1. Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
   "He was lavished with praise";
   - shower

1. Very generous
   "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise";
   - munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
    
2. Characterized by extravagance and profusion
   "a lavish buffet";
   - lucullan, lush, plush, plushy

Derived forms: lavishes, lavishing, lavished

See also: generous, rich

Type of: consume, squander, ware [archaic], waste