What's the difference between carouse and revel?

Carouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A large draught of liquor.
  • (n.) A drinking match; a carousal.
  • (v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
  • (v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She urges officers to watch out for "late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – they are all longstanding media tactics to get you to spill the beans.
  • (2) Late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – these are longstanding media tactics to get you spill the beans.
  • (3) The secret service's reputation for rowdy behaviour was reinforced in April 2012 in the runup to Obama's visit to the Caribbean resort of Cartagena in Colombia, where 13 agents and officers were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before the president's arrival.
  • (4) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (5) Tom is a heavy metal fan who, as Matt says in the film, thinks indie rock is "pretentious bullshit"; the National are all around 40 with their carousing days behind them, so Tom brought the party himself, getting wasted on his own and filming himself for kicks.
  • (6) No doubt he would look back on that evening, what he remembers of it anyway, with a wistful remembrance of the luxury of anonymity, the ability to carouse mostly unmolested from pub to pub on one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the world.
  • (7) But even then people pointed out that Munich’s heavy autumnal rainfall wasn’t conducive to excessive carousing.
  • (8) We expected some light-hearted carousing appropriate to this time of year, but didn’t expect to stumble upon these rabble-rousers and police in riot gear.” Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called “Faust des Ostens” (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
  • (9) An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carous surfaces required treatment.
  • (10) They were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before Obama’s arrival.
  • (11) The problem is that pirates are such poor role models, drinking rum and carousing with women, cutting people’s throats and making them walk the plank and so on.
  • (12) The Mancunian has a loyal and diverse array of friends who delight in his love of karaoke and late-night carousing at the Groucho.
  • (13) In December secret policemen spent the evening carousing with Mr Putin, not at their Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow but in the Kremlin, to celebrate the foundation in December 1917 of the Cheka, the Bolshevik forerunner of the KGB which developed into the key instrument of the Great Terror.
  • (14) The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.

Revel


Definition:

  • (n.) See Reveal.
  • (v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
  • (v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
  • (v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
  • (v. t.) To draw back; to retract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
  • (2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
  • (3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
  • (4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
  • (5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
  • (6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
  • (7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
  • (8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
  • (9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
  • (10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
  • (11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
  • (12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
  • (13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
  • (14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
  • (15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
  • (16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
  • (17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
  • (18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
  • (19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
  • (20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."