swallow+up
31swallow — 1. n. a puff of cigarette smoke. □ He took just one swallow and started coughing. □ Can I have a swallow of your fag? 2. tv. to believe or accept something. (See also eat something up.) □ Did they actually swallow that? D Nobody’s g …
32swallow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. ingest, gulp, devour, consume; absorb, engulf, assimilate, envelop; retract; bear, endure, submit to; believe, accept. See food, credulity, receiving. II (Roget s IV) n. Swallows include: bank,… …
33swallow — v 1. gulp, guzzle, digest, engorge; eat, sup, down, Archaic. manducate; pop, drop; bolt, snap up, wolf down, dispatch, put down or away; drink, imbibe, quaff, belt, swill, swig; tipple, tope, toss off, throw back, knock back, Sl. chug a lug;… …
34swallow — I swal•low [[t]ˈswɒl oʊ[/t]] v. t. 1) phl to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action 2) to take in so as to envelop; assimilate or absorb (often fol. by up): to be swallowed up in a… …
35swallow — I. /ˈswɒloʊ / (say swoloh) verb (t) 1. to take into the stomach through the throat or gullet (oesophagus), as food, drink, or other substances. 2. Colloquial to accept without question or suspicion. 3. to accept without opposition; put up with:… …
36swallow — noun see one swallow does not make a summer the robin and the wren are God’s cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God’s mate and marrow verb see it is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail …
37swallow — 1. verb /ˈswɒləʊ,ˈswɑ.loʊ/ a) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps …
38Swallow — 1) Heb. sis (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7), the Arabic for the swift, which is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring, and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the country, on the next they have overspread the whole… …
39swallow — n. act of swallowing to take a swallow * * * [ swɒləʊ] [ act of swallowing ] to take a swallow …
40swallow — English has two distinct words swallow. The verb, ‘ingest’ [OE], comes from a prehistoric Germanic *swelgan, which also produced German schwelgen, Dutch swelgen, Swedish svälja, and Danish svælge. It was formed from a base which also gave Old… …
