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wassail

noun

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  1. a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking woke up with a terrible headache from a wild wassail the night before Synonyms bender, binge, bust, carousal, drunk, jamboree, spree, toot, carouseRelated Words blowout, kegger (also keg party); bacchanalia, orgy, revel, revelry; bibbery, bibulousness, drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, jag, tipsiness

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wassail

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of wassail

  1. to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory Synonyms binge, birl [chiefly Scottish], revel, roister, carouseRelated Words booze, drink, guzzle, liquor (up), soak, tipple

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