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carouse collapse: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party; engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; "They were out carousing last night"

clamor collapse: loud and persistent outcry from many people; "he ignored the clamor of the crowd"; make loud demands; "he clamored for justice and tolerance"; utter or proclaim insistently and noisily; "The delegates clamored their disappointment"; compel someone to do something by insistent clamoring; "They clamored the mayor into building a new park"

horse around collapse: indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

upend collapse: set, turn, or stand on end; "upend the box and empty the contents"; become turned or set on end; "the airplanes upended"

raise hell collapse: take strong and forceful action, as to object or express discontent; "She raised hell when she found out that she wold not be hired again"

amuse collapse: make (somebody) laugh; "The clown amused the children"; occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"

bluster collapse: a violent gusty wind; noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"; blow hard; be gusty, as of wind; "A southeaster blustered onshore"; "The flames blustered"

escalate collapse: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

brawl collapse: a noisy fight in a crowd; to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street"

roar collapse: the sound made by a lion; laugh unrestrainedly and heartily; make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles; "The wind was howling in the trees"; "The water roared down the chute"; act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way; "desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"-R.A.Billington

hoist collapse: lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects; raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"; raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"; move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"

graduation collapse: the successful completion of a program of study; a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement; "the ruler had 16 graduations per inch"

sizzle collapse: a sizzling noise; burn or sear with a sizzling sound; "The fat sizzled in the pan"; make a sound like frying fat; seethe with deep anger or resentment; "She was sizzling with anger"

smolder collapse: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire"; have strong suppressed feelings

noise collapse: incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"; the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"; a loud outcry of protest or complaint; "the announcement of the election recount caused a lot of noise"; "whatever it was he didn't like it and he was going to let them know by making as loud a noise as he could"; sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"; electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication

levitate collapse: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"; cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman"

simmer collapse: temperature just below the boiling point; "the stew remained at a simmer for hours"; boil slowly at low temperature; "simmer the sauce"; "simmering water"

preferment collapse: the act of preferring; "the preferment went to the younger candidate"; the act of making accusations; "preferment of charges"

rage collapse: violent state of the elements; "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"; a state of extreme anger; "she fell into a rage and refused to answer"; something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him"; feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!"; be violent; as of fires and storms

lob collapse: the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc; an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc; propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball"

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