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as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess
they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling
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as in to drink
to swallow in liquid form
they gathered in the break room each morning to swill coffee together before the morning meeting
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Recent Examples of swill
Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2023
In the main room, people swilled beers and looked at some of the photos from the book, which had been printed and framed.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Most people pay little attention to the swill of microscopic bugs inside us.
—Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Verb
Donning a cropped black wig and always swilling a martini, Johansson fit perfectly in Anderson’s Americana milieu.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2023
In the main room, people swilled beers and looked at some of the photos from the book, which had been printed and framed.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
Noun
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Finally, bloodsuckers from The Sims 4 Vampires can simply charm the burglar into leaving — after taking a quick sip from her, of course.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Adria took a sip of tea, her first since sitting down.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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So anyway, rather than wasting an episode or two on Peter Parker trying out makeshift suits or learning to master his goo and whatnot, things pick up three months later with Peter in the earliest stages of super-heroism.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
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Once Sharon was inside, an employee soaked her hands and nails, then slathered them with goos, gels and paints.—
Topher Sanders,
ProPublica,
9 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Paddington doesn’t gorge on sadness, as I’ve been known to do.—
Rachel Sherman,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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Triangle of Sadness parodied the wealthy class and their out-of-touch behaviors; The Menu gorged on monstrous culinary world personalities and the sycophants who feed them; and most recently, Blink Twice confronted the protective bubbles shielding powerful men from accountability.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Americans — but especially Californians — drink the most tequila, which can be called tequila only if it’s grown in Mexico.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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My skin drinks this stuff up, and has alleviated many of my complexion woes—think: uneven skin tone, loss of firmness, and excess oil production—with consistent use.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
3 Sep. 2019
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After an hour at 19,000 g’s, cell wall debris packs down as leaden glop at the bottom of a tube.—
Will Hively,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Verb
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Rashad, 76, and Richardson Jackson, 75, are familiar with the trials of Black archetypal matriarchs, having feasted upon such characters for much of their careers, Rashad perhaps most notably as Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show.—
Soraya Nadia McDonald,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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Wolves feast on cattle, which can threaten the livelihood of ranchers.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The terrifying moment, captured on camera by the kayaker’s father, showed the whale surfacing in the Strait of Magellan and gulping Adrian Simancas for a few moments before releasing him.—
Abel Alvarado,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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The detective accepted the dare and gulped down the milk meant for the sergeant’s child, according to court papers.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Such catastrophic malfunctions aside, most of the time conifer resin slops over the gash and remains tacky for days afterward.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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The focus ring turns comfortably but is dampened well enough that there's no slop or play evident.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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