REGALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regale mean? 

• REGALE (verb)
  The verb REGALE has 1 sense:

1. provide with choice or abundant food or drink

  Familiarity information: REGALE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGALE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they regale    ... he / she / it regales   
Past simple: regaled   
Past participle: regaled   
-ing form: regaling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with choice or abundant food or drink

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

regale; treat

Context example:

She treated her houseguests with good food every night

Hypernyms (to "regale" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Verb group:

treat (provide with a gift or entertainment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "regale"):

wine (treat to wine)

alcoholize (subject to the influence of alcohol)

feast; feed (gratify)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

Still, however, it was her private regale.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So much was pretty soon understood; but till Sir Walter and Elizabeth were walking Mary into the other drawing-room, and regaling themselves with her admiration, Anne could not draw upon Charles's brain for a regular history of their coming, or an explanation of some smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously dropped by Mary, as well as of some apparent confusion as to whom their party consisted of.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)