Bacchanalize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(intransitive) To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously.
2. (transitive) To make riotous and wild.

Example Sentences

Then we begin our free and easy party. Let us bacchanalize to the limit.

I know that a certain man [St. Ambrose of Milan] has narrated the history of the Goths, who have been recently bacchanalizing in our lands, as of Gog and Magog, thus characterizing them by their present activities, and as they are referred to in Ezechiel.

We three could bacchanalize a little. But Jennifer mustn't know about it.

Imagine if you can the “ battle ” of Salvator Rosa bacchanalized.

To love life and to bacchanalize living are two separate instincts.

Yet Stowe so luxuriates in the swamp's productivity that it is impossible to believe she feels conflicted about nature bacchanalized.

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• bacchanalizes
• bacchanalizing
• bacchanalized
• bacchanalise

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