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plural of wassail
as in sprees
a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking woke up with a terrible headache from a wild wassail the night before

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wassail
as in drinks
to take part in drunken revelry the knights feasted and wassailed for three days after the battlefield victory

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Noun
  • So far, federal prosecutors have convicted 62 people in connection to the scandal, which tops the list of the nation's most costly COVID-era fraud sprees.
    Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Despite the designations, the gangs have continued to carry out violent killing sprees, as well as rapes and kidnappings.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Emily can pull together a cooking class with an Italian Duchess or a dinner at the resplendent Villa la Tasca, even, possibly, drinks with Count Guiseppe Tasca himself.
    Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Find skate rentals, snacks, and drinks at the warming house.
    Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.
    John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Epic Words With Friends sessions or productive Wikipedia binges clearly fall in the less-problematic camp.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
  • If binges are a risk, a teen and parent can partner and go through the buffet line and then switch plates with each other, so that the parent is keeping the child or adolescent’s portions appropriate.
    Dr. Ellen S. Rome, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
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“Wassails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wassails. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.

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