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ROISTER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they roister ... he / she / it roisters
Past simple: roistered
Past participle: roistered
-ing form: roistering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
Example:
They were out carousing last night
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "roister" is one way to...):
jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
roisterer (an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker)
