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单词 carousing
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carouse

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verb

ca·​rouse kə-ˈrau̇z How to pronounce carouse (audio)
caroused; carousing

intransitive verb

1
: to drink liquor freely or excessively
2
: to take part in a carouse : engage in dissolute behavior

transitive verb

obsolete : to drink up : quaff
carouser noun

carouse

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noun

1
: a drunken revel
2
archaic : a large draft of liquor

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Sixteenth-century English revelers toasting each other's health sometimes drank a brimming mug of spirits straight to the bottom—drinking "all-out," they called it. German tipplers did the same and used the German expression for "all out"—gar aus. The French adopted the German term as carous, using the adverb in their expression boire carous ("to drink all out"), and that phrase, with its idiomatic sense of "to empty the cup," led to carrousse, a French noun meaning "a large draft of liquor." And that's where English speakers picked up carouse in the 1500s, first as a noun (which later took on the sense of a general "drunken revel"), and then as a verb meaning "to drink freely."

Synonyms

Verb

  • binge
  • birl [chiefly Scottish]
  • revel
  • roister
  • wassail

Noun

  • bender
  • binge
  • bust
  • carousal
  • drunk
  • jamboree
  • spree
  • toot
  • wassail
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Example Sentences

Verb My brother and his friends went out carousing last night. spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates Noun the Old West custom of heading to the saloon at night for an all-out carouse and some poker playing
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Many of the legions who dressed fantastically, scantily, or both treated the festival as, well, a festival—a reason to carouse. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022 Pushkin, however, focused on a single scene, in which a group of youngsters carouse in a spontaneous street party and toast a deceased friend. The Economist, 4 June 2020 Hanging out with these carefree kids—riding in cars with them, eating fast food with them, carousing at the moontower with them, watching the sun come up with them—is pretty close to hanging out with your own friends. Wired Staff, Wired, 10 May 2020 There’s also the matter of political conventions, the events that bring together thousands of party members for days of unity, rallying and carousing to be capped off with iconic images of balloons dropping on giddy delegates. Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020 Artists were photographed wearing banker suits and smoking Montecristos, strove to be featured in ads for Absolut Vodka, caroused with real estate magnates and deep-pocketed promoters with unplaceable accents. Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020 For four hours each morning, Kokeubai says he and his fellow inmates were forced to watch videos of Xi carousing with dignitaries and overseeing military exercises. Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Feb. 2020 Here are some of the best Thanksgiving Eve places to carouse or commune with visitors in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Nov. 2019 Old Hollywood movie stars could easily be imagined carousing around the elegant swimming pool. Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
Noun
Pushkin, however, focused on a single scene, in which a group of youngsters carouse in a spontaneous street party and toast a deceased friend. The Economist, 4 June 2020 And for the adventure plot, there’s Luci, an equally diminutive demon, who encourages Bean to drink, carouse, and get into trouble. Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2018 Similarly, Freedom Day inspires the hands on Mies Julie's isolated Karoo farm to carouse late into the night, but in a manner that seems singularly ominous. Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 6 June 2018 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle French carrousse, from carous, adverb, all out (in boire carous to empty the cup), from German gar aus

First Known Use

Verb

1566, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Noun

1559, in the meaning defined at sense 2

carousing 1 of 2

noun

as in merrymaking

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • merrymaking
  • revelry
  • frolicking
  • reveling
  • jollification
  • jollity
  • rollicking
  • revelling
  • hilarity
  • gaiety
  • gayety
  • conviviality
  • whoopee
  • festivity
  • romp
  • lark
  • frolic
  • spree
  • picnic
  • revel
  • binge
  • riot
  • activity
  • gambol
  • pastime
  • rollick
  • fling
  • scream
  • escape
  • laugh
  • entertainment
  • divertissement
  • recreation
  • diversion
  • time killer
  • pleasure
  • fun
  • game
  • delight
  • distraction

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • drag
  • bore
  • downer
  • killjoy
  • bummer
  • party pooper

carousing

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verb

present participle of carouse
as in drinking
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • drinking
  • roistering
  • reveling
  • bingeing
  • wassailing
  • boozing
  • binging
  • revelling
  • birling
  • tippling
  • soaking
  • guzzling
  • liquoring (up)
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