1
as in gorged
to eat greedily or to excess
they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling
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as in sipped
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 swilled
And as always, players swilled beer out of it in front of cheering crowds at the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale.
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Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
For live music, Feidiou 2 is a small rebetadiko, or traditional music cafe, known for its melancholic Greek folk music and meze bites swilled down with sharp swigs of tsipouro, a Greek version of grappa.
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Anastasia Miari,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Mar. 2024
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
For live music, Feidiou 2 is a small rebetadiko, or traditional music cafe, known for its melancholic Greek folk music and meze bites swilled down with sharp swigs of tsipouro, a Greek version of grappa.
—
Anastasia Miari,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swilled
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The Raiders gorged in a different way, blowing the center market out of the water with a massive, $27 million per year contract for Baltimore’s Tyler Linderbaum and rocketing toward the top of the league in money spent.
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This means selling off many of the securities the Fed gorged on in a stair-step of crises over the last 18 years.
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Guests sipped cocktails as music by Travis Tritt and Jake Owen played over the loudspeakers.
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Both handhelds sipped power during Balatro, draining the battery at around 14W and 9W, respectively.
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Hardaway has feasted on open shots created by Jokic and Doncic in recent years.
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Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo feasted off low crosses to each score twice, punctuating this as the World Cup of cutbacks.
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The regulars were middle-aged men who routinely drank five or six cocktails after work and were only rarely sloppy.
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Researchers found the strongest association among people who drank about two to three cups of caffeinated coffee or one to two cups of tea each day.
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That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
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Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice.
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“Swilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swilled. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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