SWILL Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of swill

as in sip

the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine

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as in goo

a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it

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swill

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verb

ˈswil

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

Noun

Lots of mud, mixed with blood and guts, because what’s Westeros if not a queasy swill of muck and bodily fluids? — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026 The muzzle of a hunting rifle poked out from the back seat, and a water bottle on the front console was filled with the brown swill of chewing tobacco. — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025

Verb

Vicky Dawson is loopy and judgmental as Becca’s wine-swilling mom Nat. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026 Editors and influencers piled into the train-carriage narrow Ojii restaurant on the Left Bank, swilling lychee martinis and Champagne before settling in for rounds of wagyu beef, tuna tartare, tempura and — of course — sushi. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for swill

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill

Noun

Hence the belief — and often lived experience — that even just a sip of alcohol can make anyone relapse regardless of any recovery work done or number of years sober.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
Okay, speech over, taking a sip of pét-nat, onto the recipes!

— Emma Laperruque, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of sip

Noun

The older, world-weary Jae-hwan (Park Hae-il) leads the City Desk, and investigates the event from a distance with the help of his police source, diligent detective Cheol-goo (Yoo Hai-jin).

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
When the 23-year-old American and his opponent, Canada’s Denis Shapovalov, took the court, their brains and their games were goo.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of goo

Verb

Keep in mind, too, that grouse will gorge themselves on a particular food, especially in the fall.

— Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
America’s Poison Centers’s national helpline receives more than 60,000 calls about possible vitamin poisoning every year, mostly from parents alarmed after their children have accidentally gorged on the chewy sweets.

— Cat Rainsford, Popular Science, 23 July 2026

Definition of gorge

Verb

Food and drink Tucked to the left of the lobby is Senses, the hotel’s all-day dining outpost.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
There isn’t much research on predictors for who can drink normally, said Das, who is also a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford’s School of Medicine.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of drink

Noun

Atkinson’s gift for galloping plot, as well as her typical attention to even the most tertiary character, make this a delicious gulp of a read.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
Kenzo leaned back so that his bobbing Adam’s apple was visible, and drank it down in one gulp.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of gulp

Noun

Human inventiveness turned that glop into an energy resource that has vastly enriched the world.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 16 June 2026
Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.

— Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026

Definition of glop

Noun

This work should not be about flooding the internet with AI slop.

— Evan Nierman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the entertainment industry continued to reel from being overrun by cheap AI slop.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of slop

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