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(verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?" |
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Related Words: believe |
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(verb) keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet" |
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Related Words: repress, suppress |
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(noun) the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" |
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Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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Related Words: aerophagia, consumption, draft, draught, gulp, ingestion, intake, nip, sip, swig, uptake |
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(verb) take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" |
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Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
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Related Words: renounce, repudiate |
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(verb) utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech" |
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Related Words: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
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(verb) engulf and destroy, as if by ingestion: "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries" |
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Related Words: demolish, destroy |
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(verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" |
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Synonyms: get down |
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Related Words: bolt, consume, have, ingest, take, take in |
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(noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
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Related Words: Hirundo nigricans, Hirundo pyrrhonota, Hirundo rustica, Iridoprocne bicolor, barn swallow, chimney swallow, cliff swallow, martin, oscine, oscine bird, tree martin, tree swallow, white-bellied swallow |
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(noun) a small amount of liquid food: "a sup of ale" |
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Synonyms: sup |
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Related Words: mouthful, taste |
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(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult" |
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Synonyms: accept |
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Related Words: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
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(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" |
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Synonyms: bury, eat up, engross, immerse, swallow up |
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Related Words: enclose, inclose, shut in |
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