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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

... A certain mist, like darkness, hangs on my eye-lids. But too great lustre may undo the sight: A man may stare so long upon the sun That he may look his eyes out; and certainly 'Tis so with me: I have so greedily Swallow'd thy light that I have ...

— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... love flies low over the earth like a swallow before rain, and touching the tops of the flowers has culled you these. Kiss them until they open: they are full of my thoughts, as the world, to me, is full ...

— An Englishwoman's Love-Letters • Anonymous

... telling the story that he learned from me when a child, how Sir Patrick drank the full of this horn without stopping, and this was what no other man afore or since could without drawing breath. Now Sir Condy challenged the gauger, who seemed to think little of the horn, to swallow the contents, and had it filled to the brim with punch; and the gauger said it was what he could not do for nothing, but he'd hold Sir Condy a ...

— Castle Rackrent • Maria Edgeworth

... him up with a pluck, Kitty alone, Kitty alone; This duck she swallow'd him up with a pluck, So there's an end of my history book. Cock me cary, Kitty ...

— The Nursery Rhyme Book • Unknown

... that once upon a time, while King Olaf was in Russia, it happened that the son of an honest widow had a sore boil upon his neck, of which the lad lay very ill; and as he could not swallow any food, there was little hope of his life. The boy's mother went to Queen Ingegerd, with whom she was acquainted, and showed her the lad. The queen said she knew no remedy for it. "Go," said she, "to King Olaf, ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

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