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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.
EXPANDto 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.
COLLAPSEto enunciate poorly; mutter: He swallowed his words.
verb (used without object)
9.
to perform the act of swallowing.
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Swallowable
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English swalwen, variant of swelwen, Old English swelgan; cognate with German schwelgen; akin to Old Norse svelgja; (noun) Middle English swalwe, swolgh throat, abyss, whirlpool, Old English geswelgh (see y-); akin to Middle Low German swelch, Old High German swelgo glutton, Old Norse svelgr whirlpool, devourer
before 1000; (v.) Middle English swalwen, variant of swelwen, Old English swelgan; cognate with German schwelgen; akin to Old Norse svelgja; (noun) Middle English swalwe, swolgh throat, abyss, whirlpool, Old English geswelgh (see y-); akin to Middle Low German swelch, Old High German swelgo glutton, Old Norse svelgr whirlpool, devourer
Related forms
swal·low·a·ble, adjective
swal·low·er, noun
un·swal·low·a·ble, adjective
un·swal·lowed, adjective
Synonyms
1. eat, gulp, drink. 2. engulf, devour. 10. gulp, draught, drink.
1. eat, gulp, drink. 2. engulf, devour. 10. gulp, draught, drink.
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| swallow1 (ˈswɒləʊ) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to pass (food, drink, etc) through the mouth to the stomach by means of the muscular action of the oesophagus |
| 2. | ( |
| 3. | informal to believe gullibly: he will never swallow such an excuse |
| 4. | to refrain from uttering or manifesting: to swallow one's disappointment |
| 5. | to endure without retaliation |
| 6. | to enunciate (words, etc) indistinctly; mutter |
| 7. | ( |
| 8. | (intr) to perform or simulate the act of swallowing, as in gulping |
| 9. | swallow one's words to retract a statement, argument, etc, often in humiliating circumstances |
| —n | |
| 10. | the act of swallowing |
| 11. | the amount swallowed at any single time; mouthful |
| 12. | nautical crown, Also called: throat the opening between the shell and the groove of the sheave of a block, through which the rope is passed |
| 13. | rare throat another word for gullet |
| 14. | rare a capacity for swallowing; appetite |
| [Old English swelgan; related to Old Norse svelga, Old High German swelgan to swallow, Swedish svalg gullet] | |
| 'swallowable1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'swallower1 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
swallow
"migratory bird" (family Hirundinidae), O.E. swealwe, from P.Gmc. *swalwon (cf. O.S., O.N., O.Fris., Swed. svala, Dan. svale, M.Du. zwalewe, Du. zwaluw, O.H.G. swalawa, Ger. Schwalbe), from PIE *swol-wi- (cf. Rus. solowej, Slovak slavik, Pol. slowik "nightinggale"). The etymological sense is disputed.
EXPANDPopularly regarded as a harbinger of summer; swallows building nests on or near a house is considered good luck. First record of swallow-tail is 1545, of a type of arrowhead; of a type of coat, 1835.
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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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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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