Noun swallow has 3 senses
  1. swallow, sup - a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"
    --1 is a kind of taste, mouthful
  2. swallow, drink, deglutition - the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
    --2 is a kind of consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
    --2 has particulars:
     aerophagia; gulp, draft, draught, swig; nip, sip
    Derived form: verb swallow1
  3. swallow - small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
    --3 is a kind of
    oscine, oscine bird
    --3 has particulars:
     barn swallow, chimney swallow, Hirundo rustica; cliff swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota; tree swallow, tree martin, Hirundo nigricans; white-bellied swallow, tree swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor; martin
,Verb swallow has 8 senses
  1. swallow, get down - pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
    --1 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
    Derived form: noun swallow2
    Sample sentence:
    They swallow more bread
  2. swallow - engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
    --2 is one way to
    demolish, destroy
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
    --3 is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  4. swallow - utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"
    --4 is one way to
    talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw - take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
    --5 is one way to renounce, repudiate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. swallow - keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
    --6 is one way to
    suppress, repress
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  7. accept, live with, swallow - tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies"
    --7 is one way to digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  8. swallow - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
    --8 is one way to
    believe
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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