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.

noun. 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.

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

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. The act of swallowing.

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

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

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

noun. 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. ; ; ;

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

noun. 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.

noun. The stormy petrel. Also sea-swallow.

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. any one of several species of fork-tailed ploverlike birds of the genus Glareola, as G. orientalis of India; a pratincole.

noun. any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic birds of the family Artamiidæ, allied to the shrikes but similar to swallows in appearance and habits. The ashy swallow shrike (Artamus fuscus) is common in India.

noun. any one of numerous species of East Indian and Australian singing birds of the genus Dicæum. They are allied to the honeysuckers.

intransitive verb. To perform the act of swallowing.

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

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

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

transitive verb. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

transitive verb. To occupy; to take up; to employ.

transitive verb. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

transitive verb. To retract; to recant.

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

noun. The act of swallowing.

noun. The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

noun. Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

noun. Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

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

noun. That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

noun. 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.

noun. A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.

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

verb. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

verb. tolerate or accommodate oneself to

verb. utter indistinctly

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

noun. the act of swallowing

verb. keep from expressing

"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_.""

dysphagia  endure  window swallow  

one swallow does not make a summer  swallow-tailed  

abide  bear  believe  brook  close in  

Apollo  Rollo  apollo  calo  cefalo  

beaker  bird  butterfly  draught  flask  

abide  abjure  ablate  absorb  absorb  

swallowed  swallowing  swallows