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bacchanalizing

bacchanalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bacchanalizing

What is bacchanalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Bacchanalizing is the present participle and gerund of bacchanalize.

Words near bacchanalizing in the dictionary

  1. bacchanalists
  2. bacchanalization
  3. bacchanalize
  4. bacchanalized
  5. bacchanalizes
  6. bacchanalizing
  7. bacchanals
  8. bacchanology
  9. bacchant
  10. bacchante
  11. bacchantes

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