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 | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | unrestrained / unrestrained merrymaking. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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