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REGALE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with choice or abundant food or drink

Example:

She treated her houseguests with good food every night

Synonyms:

regale; treat

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "regale" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Verb group:

treat (provide with a gift or entertainment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regale"):

wine (treat to wine)

alcoholize (subject to the influence of alcohol)

feast; feed (gratify)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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