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JOLLIFY
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Irregular inflected form: jollified
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
Example:
Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
Synonyms:
jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "jollify" is one way to...):
celebrate; fete (have a celebration)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jollify"):
carouse; riot; roister (engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
jollification (a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity)
