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swallow
Verb
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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
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A swallow is a kind of small bird.
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A swallow is the amount of food or liquid that goes down the throat at one time.
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A swallow is the act of swallowing.
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
wing
Noun
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A wing is the long flat part of a bird, insect or other flying thing. It is used to fly.
This bird can fly very high very quickly because the bird uses strong wings with many feathers.
He looked out the window of the plane and saw the sun shining on the wing.
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A wing is part of a building, usually not the main part.
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A wing is part of a political group.
wing
Verb
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To fly with wings.
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If you wing it you do not have a plan—you are making up what you do while you do it.