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/swˈɑloʊ/ /swˈɔloʊ/ Listen

Swallow

verb

(past & past part. swallowed; pres. part. swallowing)

1.

Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking. Synonym: get down.

2.

Engulf and destroy.

3.

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up.

4.

Utter indistinctly.

5.

Take back what one has said. Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw.

6.

Keep from expressing.

7.

Tolerate or accommodate oneself to. Synonyms: accept, live with. "I swallowed the insult" , "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"

8.

Believe or accept without questioning or challenge.

noun

1.

A small amount of liquid food. Synonym: sup.

2.

The act of swallowing. Synonyms: deglutition, drink. "He took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

3.

Small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations.

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"Swallow" Quotes from Famous Books

... heated in the mow or having become moldy, which produces salivation. Second-crop clover and some irritant weeds in the pasture or forage may cause salivation. Cattle rubbed with mercurial ointment may swallow enough mercury in licking themselves to bring about the same result. (See "Mercury poisoning," p. 57.) Such cases, of course, arise from the constitutional action of mercury, and, on account of the common habit which the animals have of licking ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... rough food, never saw a woman or a book, undertook work to scare your city men up a tree and into a hole too easy, risked your life a dozen times a week in a tangle of logs, with the big river roaring behind just waiting to swallow you; saw nothing but woods and river, were cold and hungry and wet, and so tired you couldn't wiggle, until you got to feeling like the thing was never going to end, and until you got sick of it way through in spite ...

— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... severe frosts; sometimes they seem to shrivel or blacken, and may not perhaps be palatable then. Missel-thrushes and wood-pigeons eat them. Last winter in the stress of the sharp and continued frosts the greenfinches were driven in December to swallow the shrivelled blackberries still on the brambles. The fruity part of the berries was of course gone, and nothing remained but the seeds or pips, dry and hard as wood; they were reduced to feeding on this wretched food. Perhaps the last of the seeds available are ...

— Round About a Great Estate • Richard Jefferies

... by his widow after his death' or 'The property of an English nobleman on whose walls it has hung for two centuries.' By thunder! isn't it beautiful?" He chuckled. "Wonderful how these bullfrogs of connoisseurs swallow the dealers' flies! And here am I, who can paint any blamed thing from a hen-coop to a battle scene, doing signs for tobacco shops; and there is Sam, who can do Corots and Rousseaus and Daubignys by the yard, obliged to stick to a varnish pot and a scraper! Damnable, isn't it? But we don't ...

— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith

... dark eyes, and they dilated when he knelt beside her. The flush of fever shone in her cheeks. He lifted her and held water to her dry lips, and felt an inexplicable sense of lightness as he saw her swallow in a slow, choking gulp. Gently ...

— Riders of the Purple Sage • Zane Grey

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