food / drink
1 to make food, drink, etc. go down your throat into your stomach:
[VN] Always chew food well before swallowing it. * [VN-ADJ] The pills should be swallowed whole. * [V] I had a sore throat and it hurt to swallow.
move throat muscles
2 [V] to move the muscles of your throat as if you were swallowing sth, especially because you are nervous:
She swallowed hard and told him the bad news.
completely cover
3 [VN] [oftenpassive] ~ sb/sth (up) to take sb/sth in or completely cover it so that they cannot be seen or no longer exist separately:
I watched her walk down the road until she was swallowed by the darkness. * Large areas of countryside have been swallowed up by towns.
use up money
4 [VN] ~ sb/sth (up) to use up sth completely, especially an amount of money:
Most of my salary gets swallowed (up) by the rent and bills.
believe
5 to accept that sth is true; to believe sth:
[VN] I found her excuse very hard to swallow. * [VN-ADJ] He told her a pack of lies, but she swallowed it whole.
feelings
6 [VN] to hide your feelings:
to swallow your doubts / anger * You're going to have to swallow your pride and ask for your job back.
accept insults
7 [VN] to accept insults, criticisms, etc. without complaining or protesting:
I was surprised that he just sat there and swallowed all their remarks.
IDIOMS see BITTERadj.
Part of speech: noun
bird
1 a small bird with long pointed wings and a tail with two points, that spends the winter in Africa but flies to northern countries for the summer
of food / drink
2 an act of swallowing; an amount of food or drink that is swallowed at one time:
She took a swallow of coffee.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for swallow is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is swallow a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, swallow is tagged as verb.
Does swallow appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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