carouse

[kuh-rouz]

verb (used without object)

caroused, carousing 

1. to engage in a drunken revel.

   They caroused all night.

   Synonyms: drink, celebrate, revel

2. to drink deeply and frequently.

noun

1. carousal.

carouse

/ kəˈraʊz /

verb

1. (intr) to have a merry drinking spree; drink freely

noun

1. another word for carousal

Other Word Forms

• carouser noun
• carousing noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of carouse¹

First recorded in 1550–60; variant of garouse, from German gar aus (trinken) “(to drink) fully out,” i.e., “to drain the cup”; compare Middle French carous, from dialectal German gar ūs

Word History and Origins

Origin of carouse¹

C16: via French carrousser from German ( trinken ) gar aus (to drink) right out

Example Sentences

At first, the transition was difficult to manage, Farrell said: “After 15 or 20 years of carousing the way I caroused and drinking the way I drank, the sober world is a pretty scary world.”

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“What a pity the fair lady can’t be there, invisible,” Ibsen’s Hedda grumbled at being left home while the men got to carouse.

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The flamenco dancer Olga Pericet began topless, curled up on the floor like a beached mermaid or a woman recovering from a night of carousing.

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I was in New York doing a show and perhaps going through some melancholic times and carousing too much and enjoying Broadway, but not really that happy myself.

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MacGowan died Nov. 30 at the age of 65 after a lifetime of drinking, carousing and writing songs that fused Irish tradition with the spirit of punk.

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