revel
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Synonyms for revel
Synonyms: Verb
binge, birl [chiefly Scottish], carouse, roister, wassail
Synonyms: Noun
binge, fling, frisk, frolic, gambol, idyll (also idyl), lark, ploy, rollick, romp, spree
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reveling all night is not conducive to a productive next day at workNoun
in Finland, Midsummer Day ushers in a nationwide revel as the Finns celebrate the endless hours of sunlight with bonfires and partiesRecent Examples on the Web: Verb
For now, maybe just repeat after me one more time and revel in the regal pleasure of the word: kokoshnik. — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, "The Romanovs’ Favorite Tiara Is Back On Trend," 13 Aug. 2019 Harlow then reveled in the sun on a yacht in a crystal bikini by popular Instagram designer Sel.xo. — Nandi Howard, Essence, "We Want Everything Winnie Harlow Wore For Her 25th Birthday Weekend," 30 July 2019 The headmistress seems to revel in administering particularly savage forms of discipline, including a sort of solitary confinement that the youngsters call the Chokey. — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, "Villains are scene stealers in ‘Matilda,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’," 18 July 2019 Her daughter Mamie told me that Melvin and Licurtis had revelled in the land as kids, playing among the inky eels and conch shells. — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, "The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.," 15 July 2019 The Chess Forum is one of the last bastions of a society that was content in reveling in a simple concept: This is just a place to play chess. — Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan, Fortune, "This Store Sells Only Chess-Related Products—With Hopes to Win Over Millennials," 21 July 2019 Despite an ongoing Super Bowl drought, Lions fans are at least able to revel in their 15 years with the league's best running back, and their chance to say good-bye the right way. — J.l. Kirven, Detroit Free Press, "If Detroit Lions' Barry Sanders played longer, here's how history would have changed," 18 July 2019 Erin Birgy, who performs as Mega Bog, relocated to Los Angeles about a year ago, and her new record on the respected folk-rock label Paradise of Bachelors seems to revel in that transition. — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, "California Sounds: Mega Bog's curious folk rock, an SFV Acid trip and Automatic's dance punk," 10 July 2019 One that asks women to not revel in their success but to still do the work. — Jason Parham, WIRED, "Depth of Field: Alex Morgan and the Politics of Women in Celebration," 4 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
But Gyllenhaal revels in it, doing two things at the same time, blurring the edges between them. — Belinda Luscombe, Time, "In a New Broadway Play, Jake Gyllenhaal Attempts Something Radical: Normalcy," 8 Aug. 2019 In truth, the show revels in skewering both sides, taking more shots at Robin’s atheism than Nate’s faith, for example. — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, "‘The Detour,’ one of TV’s most outlandish shows, is also one of its best arguments for family," 18 June 2019 Not infrequently, his revels ended with him missing the last train home and retreating to the office to sleep under a desk, where a staffer might discover him with a shriek the next day. — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 11 July 2019 The third season of Stranger Things, like the first two seasons, revels in the fun, funny, nostalgic detritus of 1980s pop culture. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "In season 3, Stranger Things’ celebration of ’80s pop culture becomes a political ideology," 8 July 2019 The Marc Jacobs turns convention on its head and revels in joyous paradoxes. — Vogue, "Marc Jacobs’s Newest Line Is Exactly What Your Closet’s Been Waiting For," 31 May 2019 India has a populist leader happy to interfere with the central bank, China has ditched term limits to make its Communist leadership even more dictatorial than usual and the Philippine president revels in rejecting fetters on extrajudicial killing. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "Investor Lessons From Turkey’s Crash to Earth," 14 Aug. 2018 Sunset Overdrive is a big, dumb, fast shooter that knows its place in the big, dumb gaming pantheon and, quite frankly, revels in it. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Sunset Overdrive review: Ride the rails to kaboom-town (finally on PCs, too)," 17 Nov. 2018 This is a club that knows its past, that revels in its traditions, ‘a grand old team to play for and a grand old team to support’, as the song goes. — SI.com, "Why Everton Must Learn From Their History in Next Managerial Appointment or Be Doomed to Repeat it," 18 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'revel.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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