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Come across party animals filling Tenerife on vacation (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

traverse

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'come across' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'party animals filling tenerife on vacation' is the wordplay.
'party animals' becomes 'ravers' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'filling' is an insertion indicator.
'on vacation' suggests removing the centre.
'tenerife' with its middle taken out is 'te'.
'ravers' put into 'te' is 'TRAVERSE'.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for traverse that I've seen before include "Move across" , "Cross sideways" , "Travel across or pass over" , "Extend or bridge across" , "cover" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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