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swill

C1 verb

swill /swɪl/ nghĩa là uống ngấu nghiến, ăn uống tham lam

Các nghĩa

  1. uống ngấu nghiến, ăn uống tham lam

    To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.

    transitive

    […] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […]

    The awful judge at the trial, booze-swilling hack James Haggerty

  2. rửa bằng cách dội nước

    To wash (something) by flooding with water.

    transitive

    As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O’erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.

    When my turn came for the bath, I asked if I might swill out the tub, which was streaked with dirt, before using it.

  3. lắc tròn, khuấy tròn (chất lỏng)

    To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.

    transitive

    Jimmie looked lovingly at the flask, smelt it, and then, placing it next his ear, swilled it round to hear the splash of liquor.

    He swilled round the whisky in his glass […]

  4. chảy tràn, lan ra

    To move around or over a surface.

    intransitive

    A flood of fads swilled over all Europe.

  5. cho lợn ăn cám

    To feed swill to (pigs).

    transitive

    “Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?”

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