Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To retract; to recant.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
Substantiv
- (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- 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.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
Exempel
- 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.
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
- She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
- Though that story [...] be not so readily swallowed.
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- Homer excels [...] in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
- to swallow one's opinions
- swallowed his vows whole
- to swallow an affront or insult
- He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
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