Carouse
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English
Verb
Carouse (third-person singular simple present Carouses, present participle carousing, simple past and past participle caroused)
- (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
- (intransitive) To drink to excess.
Adverbs for Carouse
hilariously; drunkenly; sordidly; squalidly; riotously; viciously; rollickingly; tumultuously; turbulently; wildly.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, licentiousness, live hard, make a commotion, make an ado, make merry, make trouble, make whoopee, not, orgy, party, ploy, plunge into dissipation, potation, pub-crawl, raise a ruckus, raise a rumpus, raise a storm, raise hell, randan, randy, revel, riot, riotous living, roil, roister, run amok, run riot, run wild, saturnalia, see life, skylark, spree, step out, symposium, tear, toot, wanton, wassail, whoop it up, wingding, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, booze, boozer, bout, brannigan, bust, carousal, celebrate, celebration, compotation, create a disturbance, create a riot, cut loose, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, dissipate, dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, escapade, fling, free living, frolic, go berserk, guzzle, hell, hell around, high living, jag, jollify, jolly, killing pace,
Etymology
From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (“quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). More at drink.
Pronunciation
(UK, US) IPA: /kəˈɹaʊz/, SAMPA: /k@"raUz/
- Rhymes: -aʊz
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