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Swallowed

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swal⋅low

1  [swol-oh]
Use Swallowed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
2. to take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb: He was swallowed by the crowd.
3. to accept without question or suspicion.
4. to accept without opposition; put up with: to swallow an insult.
5. to accept for lack of an alternative: Consumers will have to swallow new price hikes.
6. to suppress (emotion, a laugh, a sob, etc.) as if by drawing it down one's throat.
7. to take back; retract: to swallow one's words.
8. to enunciate poorly; mutter: He swallowed his words.
–verb (used without object)
9. to perform the act of swallowing.
–noun
10. the act or an instance of swallowing.
11. a quantity swallowed at one time; a mouthful: Take one swallow of brandy.
12. capacity for swallowing.
13. Also called crown, throat. Nautical, Machinery. the space in a block, between the groove of the sheave and the shell, through which the rope runs.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (v.) ME swalwen, var. of swelwen, OE swelgan; c. G schwelgen; akin to ON svelgja; (n.) ME swalwe, swolgh throat, abyss, whirlpool, OE geswelgh (see y- ); akin to MLG swelch, OHG swelgo glutton, ON svelgr whirlpool, devourer

Related forms:
swal⋅low⋅a⋅ble, adjective
swal⋅low⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. eat, gulp, drink. 2. engulf, devour. 10. gulp, draught, drink.
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swal·low 1   (swŏl'ō)   
v.   swal·lowed, swal·low·ing, swal·lows

v.   tr.

  1. To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.

  2. To put up with (something unpleasant): swallowed the insults and kept on working.

  3. To refrain from expressing; suppress: swallow one's feelings.

  4. To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour: a building that was swallowed up by fire.

  5. Slang To believe without question: swallowed the alibi.

  6. To take back; retract: swallow one's words.

  7. To say inarticulately; mumble: The actor swallowed his lines.

v.   intr.
To perform the act of swallowing.
n.  

  1. The act of swallowing.

  2. An amount swallowed.

  3. Nautical The channel through which a rope runs in a block or a mooring chock.


[Middle English swalowen, from Old English swelgan; see swel- in Indo-European roots.]
swal'low·er n.
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Slang Dictionary
swallow

  1. n.
    a puff of cigarette smoke. : He took just one swallow and started coughing.
  2. tv.
    to believe or accept something. (See also eat (sth) up.) : Nobody's gonna swallow that nonsense.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

swallow  (v.)
"take in through the throat," O.E. swelgan (class III strong verb; past tense swealg, pp. swolgen), from P.Gmc. *swelkh-/*swelg- (cf. O.S. farswelgan, O.N. svelgja "to swallow," M.Du. swelghen, Du. zwelgen "to gulp, swallow," O.H.G. swelahan "to swallow," Ger. schwelgan "to revel"). Connections outside Gmc. uncertain. Sense of "consume, destroy" is attested from c.1340. Cognate with O.N. svelgr "whirlpool," lit. "devourer, swallower." Meaning "to accept without question" is from 1591. The noun meaning "an act of swallowing" is recorded from 1822.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2swallow
Function: noun
1 : an act of swallowing
2 : an amount that can be swallowed at one time
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

swallow swal·low (swŏl'ō)
v. swal·lowed, swal·low·ing, swal·lows
To pass something, as food or drink, through the mouth and throat into the stomach.

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