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to swill
01
to quickly and often carelessly consume large amounts of liquid, particularly alcoholic drinks
Transitive: to swill a liquid
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
swill
3rd person singular
swills
Present participle
swilling
Past simple
swilled
Past participle
swilled
Examples
After the victory, they decided to swill celebratory champagne.
02
to feed an animal with leftover food or liquid waste
Transitive: to swill an animal
Examples
He swilled the pigs every morning with the kitchen scraps.
Swill
01
liquid or semi-liquid food, often consisting of kitchen scraps mixed with water or milk, typically fed to pigs
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Uncountable
Plural form
swills
Examples
The farmer poured swill into the pig trough.
Lexical Tree
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