swill

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SWILL

to eat greedily or to excess <they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling>

Synonyms gormandize, overeat, pig out, swill

Related Words devour, glut, sate, stuff, surfeit, wolf; banquet, feast, regale; bolt, cram, gulp, guzzle

Near Antonyms nibble, peck, pick, taste

to swallow in liquid form <considering the way she swills carbonated drinks, she ought to own stock in a soda company>

Synonyms belt (down), gulp, guzzle, hoist, imbibe, knock back, pound (down), quaff, sip, slug (down), slurp, sup, swig, swill, toss (down or off)

Related Words lap, lick, suck; consume, down, ingurgitate, kill, mouth (down), put away; nip, tipple; pledge, toast, wine

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