Synonyms for swallow
ˈswɒl oʊ

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1. swallow, sup(noun)

   a small amount of liquid food

   "a sup of ale"

   Synonyms:
   sup, deglutition, drink

2. swallow, drink, deglutition(noun)

   the act of swallowing

   "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

   Synonyms:
   drinking, deglutition, sup, beverage, drink, potable, drinkable, crapulence, drunkenness, boozing

3. swallow(verb)

   small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

   Synonyms:
   sup, deglutition, drink

4. swallow, get down(verb)

   pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking

   "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"

   Synonyms:
   start, write down, eat up, bring down, get off, get, lower, demoralise, commence, dispirit, get down, demoralize, take back, deject, swallow up, unsay, take down, set down, dismount, bury, put down, begin, accept, let down, cast down, start out, depress, live with, withdraw, immerse, dismay, light, set about, unhorse, set out

5. swallow(verb)

   engulf and destroy

   "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, immerse, live with, take back, get down, withdraw, unsay, accept, bury

6. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up(verb)

   enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

   "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, take back, exhaust, bury, engross, get down, accept, withdraw, unsay, finish, engulf, inhume, eat up, entomb, live with, absorb, run through, forget, immerse, swallow up, sink, eat, consume, lay to rest, soak up, wipe out, polish off, steep, plunge, inter, use up

7. swallow(verb)

   utter indistinctly

   "She swallowed the last words of her speech"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, immerse, live with, take back, get down, withdraw, unsay, accept, bury

8. swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw(verb)

   take back what one has said

   "He swallowed his words"

   Synonyms:
   bring back, eat up, sequester, repossess, seclude, back away, crawfish out, return, crawfish, retreat, get down, take, call in, back out, retire, take back, pull away, take out, swallow up, unsay, bow out, draw back, recede, bury, recall, move back, call back, sequestrate, draw, draw off, accept, take away, adjourn, disengage, withdraw, immerse, pull back, live with, pull in one's horns, remove

9. swallow(verb)

   keep from expressing

   "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"

   Synonyms:
   eat up, swallow up, immerse, live with, take back, get down, withdraw, unsay, accept, bury

10. accept, live with, swallow(verb)

    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 idiosyncrasies"

    Synonyms:
    admit, have, bury, get down, accept, withdraw, take back, take on, eat up, assume, live with, consent, immerse, swallow up, unsay, take, take over, go for, bear

11. swallow(verb)

    believe or accept without questioning or challenge

    "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"

    Synonyms:
    eat up, swallow up, immerse, live with, take back, get down, withdraw, unsay, accept, bury

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1. swallow(3)

   Synonyms:
   martlet

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. swallow

   A fluid that is absorbed is taken up into the mass of the absorbing body, with which it may or may not permanently combine. Wood expands when it absorbs moisture, iron when it absorbs heat, the substance remaining perhaps otherwise substantially unchanged; quicklime, when it absorbs water, becomes a new substance with different qualities, hydrated or slaked lime. A substance is consumed which is destructively appropriated by some other substance, being, or agency, so that it ceases to exist or to be recognized as existing in its original condition; fuel is consumed in the fire, food in the body; consume is also applied to whatever is removed from the market for individual use; as, silk and woolen goods are consumed. A great talker engrosses the conversation. A credulous person swallows the most preposterous statement. A busy student imbibes or drinks in knowledge; he is absorbed in a subject that takes his whole attention. "I only postponed it because I happened to get absorbed in a book." Kane Grinnell Exped. ch. 43, page 403. [Harper & Bros. '54.]

   Synonyms:
   absorb, consume, drink in, drink up, engross, exhaust, imbibe, suck up, swallow up, take in, take up

   Antonyms:
   cast out, disgorge, disperse, dissipate, distract, eject, emit, exude, give up, put forth, radiate, send out, shoot forth, throw off, vomit

   Preposition:
   Plants absorb moisture from the air; the student is absorbed in thought; nutriment may be absorbed into the system through the skin.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(4.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. swallow

   Synonyms:
   absorb, gorge, engross, devour, appropriate, exhaust, consume, imbibe, engulf, brook

   Antonyms:
   vomit, disgorge, eructate, discharge, economize, save, eschew, repudiate

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   GULP, GOBBLE, BOLT, take into the stomach, take down, get down

2. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   absorb, engulf, destroy, devour, swallow up

3. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   believe (without scruple), receive implicitly

4. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   brook, stomach, pocket, endure, bear, put up with

5. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   renounce, retract, recant, take back

6. swallow(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   consume, exhaust, waste, use up

7. swallow(n.)

   Synonyms:
   throat, gullet, œsophagus

8. swallow(n.)

   Synonyms:
   voracity, gluttonous appetite

9. swallow(n.)

   Synonyms:
   dovetailed

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1. swallow(v)

   Synonyms:
   ingurgitate, gulp, bolt, engorge, englut, ingulf, suck in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm, accept, believe, credit, appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross, bear, brook, tolerate, pocket

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1. List of paraphrases:

   hirondelle, haiyan, eat, digest

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How to use swallow in a sentence?

1. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!

2. Ray Kapteyn:

   Jungle will swallow up a small airplane.

3. Rick Williams:

   This whole concept of using less and paying more is a very hard pill to swallow, we have plenty of water.

4. Steve Tsang:

   No country should presume that we will engage in trading our core interests or that we will swallow the 'bitter fruit' of harming our sovereignty, security or development interests.

5. Pearl Bailey:

   There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

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