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bacchanalise

bacchanalise is the alternative form of bacchanalize.

Meaning of bacchanalize

Verb

bacchanalize (third-person singular simple present bacchanalizes, present participle bacchanalizing, simple past and past participle bacchanalized)

  1. (intransitive) To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously.
    • Then we begin our free and easy party. Let us bacchanalize to the limit.1927, The Death of Ii Tairo, page 193
  2. (transitive) To make riotous and wild.
    • Imagine if you can the “ battle ” of Salvator Rosa bacchanalized.1888, Victor Hugo, Romances - Volume 4, page 64

Forms of bacchanalise

third-person singular presentbacchanalises
present participlebacchanalising
past participlebacchanalised
pastbacchanalised

Questions about bacchanalise

What is bacchanalise the alternative form of?
Bacchanalise is the alternative form of bacchanalize.

Words near bacchanalise in the dictionary

  1. bacchanalianism
  2. bacchanalianisms
  3. bacchanalianly
  4. bacchanalians
  5. bacchanalias
  6. bacchanalise
  7. bacchanalised
  8. bacchanalises
  9. bacchanalising
  10. bacchanalism
  11. bacchanalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bacchanalise (page history and authors); bacchanalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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