Rinse vs. Swill
Rinse and Swill Definitions
Rinse
To wash lightly with water.
Swill
To drink greedily or grossly
"Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).
Rinse
To remove (soap, for example) by washing lightly in water.
Swill
To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid
Swilled down the pretzels with soda.
Rinse
The act of washing lightly.
Swill
To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing
Swilled out the glass.
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Rinse
A solution, such as water, used in rinsing.
Swill
To swirl (a liquid) around in a container or in one's mouth
Swilled the wine in the glass before sniffing.
Rinse
A solution used in coloring or conditioning the hair.
Swill
To feed (animals) with swill.
Rinse
(transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
Swill
To drink greedily or to excess.
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Rinse
(transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
Swill
A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
Rinse
To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
You got rinsed.
Swill
Liquor or other alcohol of poor quality
I won't drink this swill.
Rinse
The action of rinsing.
I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.
Swill
A swig or gulp of a drink.
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Rinse
A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
I had a henna rinse yesterday.
Swill
(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
Rinse
To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Swill
(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
Rinse
To cleancse by the introduction of water; - applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.
Swill
Anything disgusting or worthless.
This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
Rinse
The act of rinsing.
Swill
(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Rinse
A liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint
Swill
(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
Rinse
The removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing
Swill
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
Rinse
The act of giving a light tint to the hair
Swill
(transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
Rinse
Washing lightly without soap
Swill
(transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
Rinse
Wash off soap or remaining dirt
Swill
(transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
Rinse
Clean with some chemical process
Swill
To move around or over a surface.
Rinse
Rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash;
Gargle with this liquid
Swill
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
Swill
(transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
Swill
To wash; to drench.
As fearfully as doth a galled rockO'erhang and jutty his confounded base,Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Swill
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
Swill
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
I should be lothTo meet the rudeness and swilled insolenceOf such late wassailers.
Swill
To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
Swill
The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; - called also swillings.
Swill
Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Swill
Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
Swill
Feed pigs
Swill
Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
