| VERB | consumption | revel, delight, enjoy | take delight in |
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| social | revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking | |
| NOUN | act | revel, revelry | unrestrained / unrestrained merrymaking |
| Sounds | reh'vahl | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | unrestrained / unrestrained merrymaking. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | revelry | |
| Narrower | bust, tear, binge, bout | An occasion for excessive eating or drinking |
| carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up | revelry in drinking | |
| orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry | A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | |
| whoopee | noisy and boisterous revelry | |
| Broader | merrymaking, conviviality, jollification | A boisterous celebration |
| Spanish | alborozo, algazara, embullo, holgorio, jolgorio, juerga | |
| Catalan | gatzara, revel, sarau, xerinola | |
| Verbs | revel | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking |
| Meaning | Take delight in. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | delight, enjoy | |
| Entails | use, expend | use up, consume fully |
| Narrower | have a ball, have a good time | enjoy / enjoy oneself greatly |
| live it up | enjoy / enjoy oneself | |
| wallow | delight greatly in | |
| Spanish | deleitarse, deleitar, disfrutar, divertirse, encantarse, gozar | |
| Catalan | delectar-se, disfrutar, divertir-se, fruir, gaudir | |
| Meaning | celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail | |
| Narrower | carouse, roister, riot | Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking |
| Broader | celebrate, fete | Have a celebration |
| Spanish | jaranear | |
| Nouns | revel, revelry | unrestrained / unrestrained merrymaking |
| reveller | a celebrant who shares in a noisy party / party | |
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