swallow
IPA: swˈɑɫoʊ
noun
- (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- (archaic) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA1703).
verb
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
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Examples of "swallow" in Sentences
- This is hard to swallow truth.
- They were reluctant to swallow.
- The boy swallowed gum by accident.
- The rest of the load was swallowed.
- The sage swallowed the river in a gulp.
- It's the nostalgia that's hard to swallow.
- He blanched and swallowed and turned away.
- The smaller the opposition, the easier to swallow them.
- In the human body it is controlled by the swallowing reflex.
- This channel was doubtless the original access to the swallow.
- Mind you the title swallow diluted the fun of the ad-Breakfast would have done.
- The technologist will ask why the barium swallow is being performed and explain the procedure to both you and your child.
- The approach here being that the biggest pill we have to swallow is the concept itself – a town plagued with zombie-like lunatics.
- A barium swallow is a procedure that primarily evaluates your child's esophagus, which is the tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
- That might be good policy, and the public option might make the mandate a whole lot easier to swallow from a political standpoint, but how can you possibly parse that interpretation out of the Constitution?
- Equally hard to swallow is the claim that most Egyptian citizens, including those who are close to the opposition, reject international monitoring as an infringement on national sovereignty and an unwanted intervention in domestic affairs.
- The silver lining of the spring made its words much easier to catch when it said anything -- for I should tell you that for the most part now it did not speak, or not in any language that I could understand, but rather sang -- and it now said, "_Swallow swallow, drink, swallow_."
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