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

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

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

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

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

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

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

verb-intransitive. To perform the act of swallowing.

n. The act of swallowing.

n. An amount swallowed.

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

n. Any of various small graceful swift-flying passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a usually notched or forked tail, and a large mouth for catching flying insects and noted for their regular migrations in large numbers, often over long distances.

n. Any of various similar birds, such as a swift.

n. A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

n. 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.

n. Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

n. Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

n. The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

v. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach.

v. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

v. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

v. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

v. To occupy; to take up; to employ.

v. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

v. To retract; to recant.

v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

verb-intransitive. To perform the act of swallowing.

n. The act of swallowing.

n. The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

n. Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

n. Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

n. As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once.

n. That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

To take into the stomach through the throat, as food or drink; receive through the organs of deglutition; take into the body through the mouth.

Hence, in figurative use, to draw or take in, in any way; absorb; appropriate; exhaust; consume; engulf: usually followed by up.

Specifically To take into the mind readily or credulously; receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; receive implicitly; drink in: sometimes with down.

To put up with; bear; take patiently: as, to swallow an affront.

To retract; recant.

= Syn. 1–3. Engross, Engulf, etc. See absorb.

To perform the act of swallowing: accomplish deglutition.

n. The cavity of the throat and gullet, or passage through which food and drink pass; the fauces, pharynx, and gullet or esophagus leading from the mouth to the stomach; especially, the organs of deglutition collectively.

n. A yawning gulf; an abyss; a whirlpool.

n. A deep hollow in the ground; a pit.

n. The space in a block between the groove of the sheave and the shell, through which the rope reeves.

n. A funnel-shaped cavity occurring not uncommonly in limestone regions, and especially in the chalk districts of France and England. Also called swallow-hole or sinkhole. See sink-hole.

n. The act of swallowing.

n. That which is swallowed; as much as is swallowed at once; a mouthful.

n. Taste; relish; liking; inclination: as, “I have no swallow for it,”

n. A swallower; a fish that inflates itself by swallowing air; a puffer or swell-fish.

n. A fissirostral oscine passerine bird with nine primaries; any member of the family Hirundinidæ, of which there are numerous genera and about 100 species, found in all parts of the world. ; ; ;

n. Some bird likened to or mistaken for a swallow.

n. A breed of domestic pigeons with short legs, squat form, white body, colored wings, and shell-crest. Numerous color-varieties are noted. The birds sometimes called fairies are usually classed as swallows.

n. The stormy petrel. Also sea-swallow.

v. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

v. tolerate or accommodate oneself to

v. utter indistinctly

n. small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

n. the act of swallowing

v. keep from expressing

v. take back what one has said

v. believe or accept without questioning or challenge

n. a small amount of liquid food

v. pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking

v. engulf and destroy

"The silver lining of the spring made its words much easier to catch when it said anything -- for I should tell you that for the most part now it did not speak, or not in any language that I could understand, but rather sang -- and it now said, "_Swallow swallow, drink, swallow_.""

swallowed    swallowing    swallows   

enclose    inclose    shut in    close in    bear    support    put-up    brook    suffer    digest   

endure    window swallow    dysphagia   

swallow-tailed    one swallow does not make a summer   

ingulf    absorb    engross    imbibe    consume    appropriate    occupy    employ    exhaust    retract   

Apollo    Rollo    apollo    calo    cefalo    dalo    follow    hollow    malo    salo   

sip    gulp    mouthful    draught    hawk    sparrow    mug    swan    pigeon    owl