Swallow

Verb

 * 1)  To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
 * 2) *1898,, Chapter 4:
 * What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
 * 1) *2011, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 21 Apr 2011:
 * Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
 * 1)  To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
 * 2) *2010, "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist, 28 Oct 2010:
 * His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) *1979, VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic:
 * She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
 * 1)  To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
 * 2) *2011, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 22 Apr 2011:
 * Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.

Derived terms

 * bitter pill to swallow
 * swallowable


 * swallow one's pride


 * swallow up

Noun

 * 1)  A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
 * 2) The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
 * He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Synonyms

 * martlet

Derived terms

 * one swallow does not make a summer
 * swallow-tailed

Adjectives for Swallow
skimming; twittering; innumerable (pi); blithe; garrulous; chaffering; beauteous.

Verbs for Swallow
—arranges; —banks; —busies; —chirps; — circles; —s colonize; —dares; —s flock; — flutters; —journeys; —migrates; —swims low; —smooths;   —snatches;  —spreads wings; —sweeps ; —twitters.

Adverbs for Swallow
avidly; vigorously; hastily; glumly; greedily; thickly; embarrassedly; spasmodically.

Thesaurus
abide, abjure, ablate, absorb, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acquiesce, allow, and sinker, antelope, arrow, assent, assimilate, back down, back out, backwater, be a sucker, be agreeable, be certain, be taken in, bear with, beard, believe, believe without reservation, bite, bleed white, blue darter, blue streak, bolus, brook, burn up, buy, cannonball, champ, chaw, chew, chomp, climb down, comply, conquer, consent, consume, control, courser, crawfish out, credit, cud, dart, deny, deplete, devour, digest, disavow, disclaim, disown, dispatch, dispose of, disregard, down, drain, drain of resources, drink, drinking, drop, eagle, eat, eat crow, eat humble pie, eat up, eating, electricity, endure, engorge, engorgement, engulf, engulfment, erode, exhaust, expend, express train, face the music, fall for, finish, finish off, flash, forswear, fumble, gazelle, get away with, get down, give faith to, gnash, go, go along with, go for, gob, gobble, gobble up, greased lightning, greyhound, gulp, gulp down, gulping, guzzle, hare, ignore, imbibe, imbibition, impoverish, ingest, ingestion, ingurgitate, ingurgitation, jet plane, knock under, knuckle down, knuckle under, lap up, light, lightning, line, live with it, mercury, morsel, mouthful, muddle, munch, murmur, mutter, nibble, nip, not resist, obey, overcome, pack away, pocket, pocket the affront, put away, put faith in, quaff, quicksilver, quid, quilt, recant, receive, relent, renege, renounce, repress, repudiate, resign, retract, revoke, rocket, scared rabbit, set store by, shot, sip, slurp, smother, snap, spend, squander, stand, stifle, stomach, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, submit, succumb, suck dry, sup, suppress, surround, swallow an insult, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow it, swallow the pill, swallow up, swallow whole, swallowing, swig, swill, swill down, swing at, take, take back, take down, take for granted, take in, take it, take on faith, take on trust, take stock in, take the bait, thought, thunderbolt, tolerate, torrent, toss, trust, tuck in, tumble for, turn aside provocation, unsay, use up, waste away, wear away, wind, withdraw, wolf down

Etymology 1
swelgan:, from Germanic. Cognate with Dutch zwelgen:, German schwelgen:, Swedish svälja:.

Etymology 2
Late swelg:, from Germanic (related to Etymology 1, above).

Etymology 3
swealwe:, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish svale:, Dutch zwaluw:, German Schwalbe:, Swedish svala:.

Verb

 * Afrikaans: sluk
 * Albanian: gëlltit
 * Arabic: جرع
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: engolir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: slikken, doorslikken
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: glutar
 * Interlingua: glutir, inglutir, deglutir, ingurgitar
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 飲み込む


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: engolir, deglutir, ingurgitar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: swallie
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene: požirati, pogoltniti
 * Spanish:, , deglutir, ingurgitar
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మింగు (mingu)
 * Turkish: yutmak
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: chim nhạn
 * Welsh: llyncu
 * Welsh: llyncu


 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, déglutir
 * Greek:
 * Kurdish:, ,


 * Norwegian:
 * Scots: swallie
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:


 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:, engluti
 * Finnish:
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 * Norwegian: sluke
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: తిను (tinu)
 * Turkish: ,


 * Czech:
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 * Finnish:
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 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Norwegian: sluke
 * Swahili:
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Noun

 * Kurdish: ,
 * Scots: swallie


 * Swahili:


 * Afrikaans: sluk
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, (of liquid)


 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Scots: swallie
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: swavel
 * Albanian: dallëndyshja
 * Arabic: سنونو
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Azeri: qaranquş
 * Basque: enara
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: gwennili-siminal
 * Bulgarian: селска лястовица
 * Catalan: oreneta
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 燕子
 * Crimean Tatar: qarılğaç
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: svale, landsvale
 * Dutch:, boerenzwaluw
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: cisile, sisile
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: χελιδόνι (kheliðóni)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: hirundine
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, つばめ,  ツバメ


 * Korean: 제비 (jebi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:, ,
 * Sorani:
 * Ladin: rondola
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: bezdelīga
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: swulk, swolk, swalk, swölk, Swælk
 * Lower Sorbian: jaskolicka
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese: ħuttafa
 * Nahuatl: cuicuizcatl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: svale (låvesvale)
 * Occitan: ironda
 * Persian:, , ابابیل
 * Polish:, dymówka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: pitsagoy, rindilashka
 * Romanian: rândunică, lăstun
 * Romansch: randulina
 * Russian:
 * Sami: spálfu, suorrespálfu, láhtospálfu
 * Sardinian: mongixedda, arrùndine, arrùndini
 * Scots: swalla
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, , ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: (naang àen)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: łastojčka
 * Welsh: gwennol
 * West Frisian: swel, boereswel

Anagrams

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