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swallow
has definitions from the fields of biology,zoology,food,psychiatry
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[ verb ] pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
Synonyms Examples "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)Several years ago headlines were made by a small radio_transmitter capsule which could be swallowed by the patient and which would then radio internal pressure data to external receivers . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs ; the fish have swallowed vast numbers of bottom living diatoms , raised to the surface by the disturbance . (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad , and the remedy was to make all possible noise , ideally with firearms . (Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cup, the Blade...)Sarah swallowed past another kind of constriction in her throat . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)`` I 've been thinking '' , she said , swallowing the toast . |
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[ verb ] engulf and destroy, as if by ingestion
Examples : "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries" Used in print (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)As a creative enterprise , its abilities are primarily in `` swallowing '' creative enterprises developed outside its own organization ( an ability made possible by us , and almost mandatory ) . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (food) a small amount of liquid food
Synonyms Examples : "a sup of ale" Used in print (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)He took several large swallows , recollected that Docherty had gone_up another flight , and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him . (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Gracias '' , I hollered , my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary . |
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[ verb ] enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Synonyms Examples "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Mark asked , and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road , the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came_down . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology) the act of swallowing
Synonyms Examples "one swallow of the liquid was enough" "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" Used in print (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink , and said , `` I admit that going back to Ralph_Waldo_Emerson for humor is like going_to a modern musical_comedy for music and comedy '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] utter indistinctly
Examples "She swallowed the last words of her speech" Related terms |
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[ verb ] tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Examples "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions" "I swallowed the insult" "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies" Related terms |
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[ verb ] believe or accept without questioning or challenge
Examples "Am I supposed to swallow that story?" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 9498
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[ verb ] take back what one has said
Examples "He swallowed his words" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (psychiatry) keep from expressing
Examples "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
Related terms oscine tree_swallow cliff_swallow white-bellied_swallow martin barn_swallow |
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