Synonyms of swilling

swilling

verb

present participle of swill

1

as in gorging

to eat greedily or to excess

they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gorging
• feasting
• overeating
• devouring
• glutting
• gormandizing
• gulping
• pigging out
• wolfing
• guzzling
• loading up on
• regaling
• sating
• stuffing
• banqueting
• surfeiting
• cramming
• bolting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• picking
• tasting
• nibbling
• pecking

2

as in sipping

to swallow in liquid form

they gathered in the break room each morning to swill coffee together before the morning meeting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sipping
• drinking
• gulping
• swigging
• quaffing
• supping
• guzzling
• slurping
• imbibing
• licking
• hoisting
• sucking
• pounding (down)
• tossing (down or off)
• belting (down)
• slugging (down)
• knocking back
• consuming
• lapping
• downing
• tippling
• toasting
• mouthing (down)
• killing
• wining
• putting away
• nipping
• pledging
• ingurgitating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of swilling

Making her Broadway debut, Louis-Dreyfus plays Polly Wyeth, a vodka-swilling, Goyard-toting, Republican matriarch—more Bush, less Boebert—married to Lyman (Harris), an action star turned right-wing pol. — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

There’s the youngest, most freewheeling son’s habit of swilling cold coffee while watching The Gong Show. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

Spirit swilling was down 5% in California, compared with a 4% drop nationwide. — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 15 May 2026

Cate Blanchett, ‘Blue Jasmine’ (2014) Blanchett delivers an enjoyably tragicomic turn in Woody Allen's dramedy as a booze-swilling, Xanax-popping hot mess. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026

People who would never be caught dead swilling neon fizz from a camouflage can were suddenly consuming a drink that was materially the same, but was being sold by exploiting a different set of unattainable aspirations, using a different vocabulary. — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026

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

Fighting off hordes of alien monstrosities AND digging for rare minerals in outer space as a crew of beer-swilling, ass kicking space dwarves? — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025