revel

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to take great pleasure or delight; to celebrate boisterously

   She reveled in the applause of the crowd.

From Old French reveler ('to revolt, make merry, carouse'), from Latin rebellare ('to rebel'), from re- ('again') + bellare ('to wage war'), from bellum ('war'); the sense shifted from riotous behavior to merrymaking.

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