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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

... concupiscence, and raise it to a pitch of intensity which it never has reached before. The competent, to whose energies the riches of the world are due, are to put these riches away from them as though they were food offered by the devil. The incompetent, with thankless but perpetually open mouths, are to swallow this same food as though it were the bread from heaven. In other words, according to our Christian socialist, the sin against the Holy Ghost, which is involved in the enjoyment of riches, is not the enjoyment of material superfluities itself, ...

— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock

... it cooler than even the hardest mattress. I did not sleep much, however, for so many rats and lizards ran about my room. These small, bright-eyed lizards go up the walls in search of flies. They dart upon the fly with very great speed, but just as you think that they are about to swallow him they pause for a second or two and then make the spring. I have never seen a fly escape during this pause, which looks as if the lizard charmed or petrified his victim. The Malays have a proverb based upon this fact: "Even the lizard gives the fly ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... but after a while they found themselves returning to Bloomsbury. They could not keep away from the house.... They tried to eat a meal at the Vienna Cafe, but they could not swallow the food, so they paid their bill and went away. They wandered into the British Museum, and tried to interest themselves ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... the ballad-monger, who had not opened his mouth but to swallow everything that came within his reach, "I know some men of talent who think highly of the judgments of Parisian critics. I myself have a pretty reputation as a musician," he went on, with an air of diffidence. "I owe ...

— Gambara • Honore de Balzac

... of the nightingale will ring from leafy hollow, And fill us with a rapture indescribable in words; And we shall also listen to the robin and the swallow (I wonder if a swallow sings?) and ... well, the ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

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