wassailed

verb

past tense of wassail
as in roistered
to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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  1. drank
  2. reveled
  3. binged
Verb
  • Leo arrived in Lourdes from Paris on Saturday night and immediately prayed inside the Grotto of Apparitions and drank from the spring.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The share of adults who drank any alcohol in the past year fell by nearly 2%, and the share who drank heavily fell by more than 8% from 2022 to 2024, according to the study.
    — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of drank
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  • Navarrete reveled with one woman over her husband’s release from a detention facility.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Walker wore his Cardinals hat backward, chewed a big wad of bubble gum and reveled afterward in flashing his imitation Liberty Bell bling, the champions chain presented by Ryan Howard.
    — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
Definition of reveled
Verb
  • Summer may be petering out, but for those who haven’t binged Sterling Point, don’t pack up your swimsuit just yet.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026
  • An entire season of Ransom Canyon is dropped at once, can be binged in two days, and is gone for a year and a half.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of binged
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“Wassailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wassailed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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