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41swallow up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If one thing is swallowed up by another, it becomes part of the first thing and no longer has a separate identity of its own. [V P n (not pron)] During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.… …
42swallow up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms swallow up : present tense I/you/we/they swallow up he/she/it swallows up present participle swallowing up past tense swallowed up past participle swallowed up 1) to take control of a smaller company or… …
43swallow — 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… …
44swallow up — {v. phr.} To do away with; absorb; engulf. * /My expenses are so great that they swallow up my modest salary./ …
45swallow up — {v. phr.} To do away with; absorb; engulf. * /My expenses are so great that they swallow up my modest salary./ …
46swallow — To pass anything through the fauces, pharynx, and esophagus into the stomach; to perform deglutition. [A.S. swelgan] Gastrografin s. esophagram or upper GI series using water soluble iodinated contrast medium. SYN: hypaque s.. hypaque s. SYN:… …
47swallow up — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, bring to ruin, burn up, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, deplete, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, digest, dissolve, drain …
48Swallow — accept without question or suspicion: He ll never swallow that …
49swallow — Australian Slang accept without question or suspicion: He ll never swallow that …
50swallow\ up — v. phr. To do away with; absorb; engulf. My expenses are so great that they swallow up my modest salary …
