Basked

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Enjoyed warmth or sunlight in a relaxed way
2. Rested comfortably while absorbing heat or light
3. Lied or sat relaxing while feeling the heat or light from the sun or another source

Etymology: The verb "basked" is the past tense of "bask," and its story starts in the bathhouse. Its ancestor in Old Norse, "baðask," meant "to take a bath," literally "to bathe oneself." The form combines "baða" ("to bathe") with "sik" ("oneself"), using a mediopassive construction that marks an action done to or for oneself. English picked it up through Middle English as "basken." The word is a doublet of "bathe," meaning the two words descend from the same ancestor but reached English by different routes, with one coming through Old English and the other through Old Norse. So the cozy image of lounging in sunshine began as a plain description of washing oneself. The sense shifted from getting wet to getting warm, and the idea of soaking in something, whether water or sun, carried the meaning across.

Synonyms: revelled, enjoyed, savored, delighted, luxuriated

Antonyms: suffered, shunned, avoided, disliked, dreaded