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revelry

rev·el·ry /ˈrevəlri/ noun [uncountable] (also revelries [plural])

  • wild noisy dancing, eating, drinking etc, usually to celebrate something →celebration

sprawled

sprawled /sprɔːld $sprɒːld / adjective

  • be/lie/sit sprawled (out) to be lying or sitting with your arms or legs stretched out in a lazy or careless way:
    • He was sprawled in an armchair in front of the TV.
    • A girl lay sprawled across the bed.

defy

de·fy /dɪˈfaɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle defied , present participl edefying , third person singular defies ) [transitive]

  1. to refuse to obey a law or rule, or refuse to do what someone in authority tells you to do →defiance :
    • people who openly defy the law
  2. defy description/analysis/belief etc to be almost impossible to describe or understand:
    • The beauty of the scene defies description.
  3. defy logic/the odds etc to not happen according to the principles you would expect:
    • a 16-week premature baby who defied the odds and survived
  4. I defy somebody to do something spoken formal used when you ask someone to do something that you think is impossible:
    • I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

odious

o·di·ous /ˈəʊdiəs $ˈoʊ- / adjective formal

  • extremely unpleasant SYN horrible :

    • an odious little man

  • odiously adverb

fuse

fuse2 verb [intransitive and transitive]

  1. to join together physically, or to make things join together, and become a single thing
    • fuse (something) together
      • The egg and sperm fuse together as one cell.
  2. to combine different qualities, ideas, or things, or to be combined SYN merge :
    • Their music fuses elements as diverse as Cajun, bebop and Cuban waltzes.
    • fuse (something) with something
      • Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.
    • fuse (something) into something
      • We intend to fuse the companies into a single organization.
  3. British English if electrical equipment fuses, or if you fuse it, it stops working because a fuse has melted:
    • The lights have fused again.
  4. technical if a rock or metal fuses, or if you fuse it, it becomes liquid by being heated:
    • Lead fuses at quite a low temperature.