- swallow, sup - a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"
--1 is a kind of taste, mouthful
- 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 - 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
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun swallow2
They swallow more bread
- swallow - engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
--2 is one way to demolish, destroy
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- 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
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Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- swallow - utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"
--4 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
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Somebody ----s something
- swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw - take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
--5 is one way to renounce, repudiate
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- swallow - keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
--6 is one way to suppress, repress
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Somebody ----s something
- 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
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Somebody ----s something
- swallow - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
--8 is one way to believe
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- 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"