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Meanings of revel in English
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.
Synonyms
Examples for "racket"
Examples for "racket"
1
Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
2
Still, this was about racket, not reality, and Dominique probably was right.
3
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
4
Later she said of her racket abuse: I just threw my racket.
5
What with all this racket, I can't really hear you too good.
1
Only the presence at table of their leaders kept the wassail down.
2
Orgies and wild wassail hold a mocking sway in the courts of death.
3
With wine and wassail they nerved themselves for the desperate deed.
4
Oh, to be young again an' not spill life in wassail!
5
In 1599 Arthur Chichester brought this wassail bowl from his native Devon to Ulster.
1
To-night you may jollify; but after that you are under strict discipline, for a month at least.
2
Tain't natchul fer folks not to git together an' laugh an' be happy an' fergit dere quarrels an' dere troubles an' jollify deyselves.
3
You cannot imagine how a little praise jollifies us poor authors to the marrow of our bones.
1
And if I make whoopie pies I won't be able to stand the temptation.
1
These men eat and make merry; let it be their funeral feast.
2
Nana was struck and did her best to make merry about it.
3
To make merry in camp is not all of a ranger's life.
4
And Eumaeus answered: Eat, stranger, and make merry with what thou hast.
5
Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here.
1
I play, to make happy the children, to get bread for me.
2
But look at the good you can do-thepeople you can make happy.
3
May Venus make happy your next pursuit of a pretty slave.
4
What was wealth good for anyhow, save to make happy those we love?
5
Photo: Supplied Which plants make happy bedfellows and which don't?
1
He has worked her to whoop it up for him down there.
2
Cent., as he had accumulated his full line, and was ready to whoop it up.
3
They would fairly whoop it up.
4
It's a race, of course; but you're too much of a horseman to whoop it up this soon.
5
Don't you ever whoop it up?'
Usage of revel in English
1
In this they pipe and revel; in this they sing and dance.
2
I am a man; I revel in trouble; you are a girl.
3
And I rather revel in it-asI do in the east wind.
4
The dance hall revel at the Elysian Fields was in full swing.
5
Nor does the revel end then; it is prolonged for eight days.
6
So, as I said before you know I revel in his writing.
7
Her daughter was to revel in the comforts and elegancies of life.
8
Break it down into seven days and revel in the dramatic landscape.
9
However, he soon should be in that city and revel in them.
10
She had stolen away from Lochias in the midst of a revel.
11
And this done, she would revel in the enjoyment of fresh air.
12
RP: I would tell them to stop and revel in their accomplishments.
13
At the end is a final revel of the first dancing tune.
14
But I knew I must not revel in this place too long.
15
The signs were that they had come from a revel just dismissed.
16
Natives seem to revel in water contaminated by all kind of horrors.
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Translations for revel
Revel through the time
Revel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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