caroused

Definition of carousednext
past tense of carouse
as in drank
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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Verb
  • Harry Styles bravely drank from a sneaker during an Australian concert in 2023.
    Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
  • The mother and daughter often drank and used marijuana together, investigators found, and communicated almost daily about drinking alcohol.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • While hundreds reveled at Thursday night’s all-out bash for The Pierre hotel’s 95th anniversary, some of the building’s tenants in the floors above haven’t been feeling quite as celebratory.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In the party scene, though, there would be plenty of swooping camera movements as the guests revelled.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Audiences had binged Tiger King in 2020, following the lead-up to Joe Exotic’s conviction for hiring someone to kill Carole Baskin, his competitor in the big cat world.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026
  • Some were built to be binged, engineered for the streaming era when a full season premiered at once, and some were designed as limited series.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Mar. 2026
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“Caroused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caroused. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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