MEANING
To spend time in lively, often excessive drinking and merrymaking.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- carouse all night
- carouse with companions
On the page
The officers caroused downstairs while the crew repaired the damage.
He had caroused with the visitors until every lamp burned low.
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Word forms
- Base
- carouse
- Past tense
- caroused
- Past participle
- caroused
- Present participle
- carousing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- carouse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are carousing
- Present perfect
- have/has caroused
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been carousing
- Past
- caroused
- Past continuous
- was/were carousing
- Past perfect
- had caroused
- Past perfect continuous
- had been carousing
- Future
- will carouse
- Future continuous
- will be carousing
- Future perfect
- will have caroused
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been carousing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: carouse; carouses; caroused; caroused; carousing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: carouses.
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