Revel

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  • intransitive verb. To take great pleasure or delight.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
  • noun. A boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw back or away; remove.
  • To hold or take part in revels; join in merrymaking; indulge in boisterous festivities; carouse.
  • To dance; move with a light and dancing step; frolic.
  • To act lawlessly; wanton; indulge one's inclination or caprice.
  • To take great pleasure; feel an ardent and keen enjoyment; delight.
  • To spend in revelry.
  • noun. A merrymaking; a feast or festivity characterized by boisterous jollity; a carouse; hence, mirth-making in general; revelry.
  • noun. Specifically— A kind of dance or choric performance often given in connection with masques or pageants; a dancing procession or entertainment: generally used in the plural.
  • noun. An anniversary festival to commemorate the dedication of a church: a wake.
  • noun. Synonyms Debauch, Spree, etc. See carousal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. See reveal.
  • noun. A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
  • noun. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To draw back; to retract.
  • intransitive verb. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
  • intransitive verb. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
  • verb. To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
  • verb. To draw back; to retract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. take delight in
  • noun. unrestrained merrymaking
  • verb. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
  • Word Usage
    "Her hair, flying loose in revel or war, is still an angel's hair, and glorious under a halo."
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