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swallow English

Meaning swallow meaning

What does swallow mean?
Definitions in simple English

swallow Verb

— If you swallow something you make it go through your mouth into your body (down your esophagus to your stomach). We swallow food and drinks. Young children put small toys in their mouths and sometimes swallow them.

swallow Noun

— A swallow is a kind of small bird. — A swallow is the amount of food or liquid that goes down the throat at one time. — A swallow is the act of swallowing. He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

swallow

— verb pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you! — verb engulf and destroy The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries — noun (= sup) a small amount of liquid food a sup of ale — verb enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter — noun (= drink) the act of swallowing one swallow of the liquid was enough he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips — noun small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations — verb keep from expressing I swallowed my anger and kept quiet — verb believe or accept without questioning or challenge Am I supposed to swallow that story? — verb (= take back) take back what one has said He swallowed his words — verb utter indistinctly She swallowed the last words of her speech — verb (= accept, live with) tolerate or accommodate oneself to I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions I swallowed the insult She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies

Synonyms swallow synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as swallow?

swallow English » English

gulp drink devour gulp down engulf eat ingest sip eat up deglutition consume absorb swallow up martin bird suck accept suppress quaff live with imbibe guzzle get down down choke bury believe withdraw whole uvula unsay tolerate take in take back take swig swift sup stomach sparrow meal ligule lick immerse hirundinidae gorge eat greedily cooked rice buy barn swallow

Topics swallow topics

What do people use swallow to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Bird
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal eating
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
Language and thought Think Opinion

Believe
Daily life Food

Eat
Daily life Food Eat

Bite, chew

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    swallow
Work and occupation Work Method Use

Use up
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Disappointed
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

Conjugation swallow conjugation

How do you conjugate swallow?

swallow · verb

Examples swallow examples

How do I use swallow in a sentence?

Simple sentences

One swallow does not make a summer.
That's a hard pill to swallow.
A swallow flies very swiftly.
The boy can't tell a swallow from a sparrow.
The medicine is hard to swallow.
My throat hurts when I swallow.
When you swallow a dangerous substance, what you need to do depends on what you swallowed.
The woman downed the gin and lime that was served in one swallow.
One swallow does not make a spring.
One swallow doesn't make a spring.
It takes more than one swallow to make a summer.
If you swallow a dangerous substance, it depends on the substance which measures need to be taken.
If I don't drink a swig of water, I can't swallow these tablets.
The child protested against having to swallow the medicine.
Don't swallow that slick propaganda.
I can't swallow these tablets without a drink of water.
One swallow does not a spring make.
Don't swallow these chemical products.
You must swallow the pill.
You need to swallow your pride.
Swallow it. Don't chew it.

Movie subtitles

Swallow me whole, I'm wholly yours.
I beg you pardon, I'll just swallow.
You won't get another swallow until you say.
You think he'II swallow that?
You try swallow Manuel like he little smelt, huh?
It must take a lot of water to swallow that.
You can swallow that with 5 gallons.
Why should I swallow it here in Tibet?
Don't you feed me what I can't swallow!
Good morning, Miss Swallow.
Yes, but I have to go to Carnegie Hall to meet Miss Swallow.
Miss Swallow?
I'm engaged to Miss Swallow.
The damage to Miss Swallow, the museum, Mr. Peabody and everybody.
It's a hard pill to swallow.
Swallow this, now.
Come, swallow this. Swallow this.
Don't you come near me or I'll swallow it and you'll lose your money.
No, don't swallow it, don't swallow it.
Now swallow.
I bet you wouldn't treat Miss Swallow this way.
I'm not here to discuss Miss Swallow. I'm looking for George. I'll find him if.
I'm Miss Swallow.
Prunes every day for breakfast I don't mind. Torn sheets I've got used to. - But pants, I cannot swallow.
I still haven't the least notion what it's all about, but swallow this before you tell me.
Maybe it's the same swallow we saw in Paris.
As we sipped swallow-nest broth, suddenly a big bird flew into the tent.

News and current affairs

Such changes run counter to current practice and will not be easy for party members to swallow.
Who can swallow this?
Over a period of a few years, her muscles will weaken until she can no longer walk, use her hands, chew, swallow, speak, and ultimately, breathe.
Does it plan to swallow Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasus?
This levy, strongly backed by those countries whose financial sectors are in tatters after the crisis, is hard to swallow for EU states that did not intervene to bail out their banks.
But that is a hard doctrine to swallow - much harder than eating the extra slice of cake that you know is not good for you.
The only possible silver lining to this sorry history is that some of Tsipras's supporters at home may now be willing to swallow the creditors' bitter medicine.
Entrepreneurs and managers swallow their anger and show their disapproval only by silently speeding up their relocation decisions.
South America is booming, as India and China swallow up its exports of iron, copper, soybeans, coffee, coal, oil, wheat, poultry, beef, and sugar.
This is perhaps the main reason why the scientific rejection of dualism may be so hard to swallow: it seems to diminish the moral status of people.
They then tried to force the Ukrainian people to swallow this sham - threatening to ban public gatherings, close our borders to new visa seekers, and silence any word of our protests on television.
One swallow does not make a summer, and one month of normal job growth, and rising prices in the United States does not mean that the Federal Reserve no longer fears economic malaise and deflation.
Yet Putin managed simultaneously to celebrate his anti-Iraq war cooperation with Europe, have the US swallow this, and be recognized in front of his local minions as a world leader.
Although this might be hard to swallow for traditionalists among central bankers, it now seems likely that high inflation in Germany will be the price of achieving the eurozone's long-term cohesion.
This renewed embrace of the market, reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping's original turn to capitalism in 1979, will be hard medicine for China's entrenched business and government elites to swallow.
So, in the short run, the IMF will have to be used, if that kind of support is needed, and Sarkozy will have to swallow his pride.
Pragmatism is essential, even if it means that some relevant actors, including the EU, have to swallow their pride.
Try, for example, to swallow a salami whole, and you will probably choke to death.
This implied that the West was morally superior, too - a difficult notion for the country of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky to swallow.
For many people, the idea of spending time and resources on such otherworldly pursuits is difficult to swallow.
France, in turn, had to swallow the Stability and Growth Pact to convince a reluctant German public that the euro would be as stable as the Deutsche Mark.
It is time to swallow our own medicine and resume the hard work of repairing our banking systems.
Given that China's rapid GDP growth since 1979 would have been impossible without America's efforts to create an open world order, Chinese leaders should not consider this too difficult a pill to swallow.

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