swallowing
吞咽,吞食,吞下,吞服
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Definitions
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- : to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- : to take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb: He was swallowed by the crowd.
- : to accept without question or suspicion.
- : to accept without opposition; put up with: to swallow an insult.
- : to accept for lack of an alternative: Consumers will have to swallow new price hikes.
- : to suppress as if by drawing it down one's throat.
- : to take back; retract: to swallow one's words.
- : to enunciate poorly; mutter: He swallowed his words.
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- : to perform the act of swallowing.
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- : the act or an instance of swallowing.
- : a quantity swallowed at one time; a mouthful: Take one swallow of brandy.
- : capacity for swallowing.
- : Also called crown, throat. Nautical, Machinery. the space in a block, between the groove of the sheave and the shell, through which the rope runs.
Phrases
- swallow one's pride
- swallow one's words
- bitter pill to swallow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This is a tedious process without a pot, but you can melt a few swallows at a time in a piece of tinfoil, a can or bottle discarded by a sloppy hiker.
What was uncontestable — especially during a moment when most things felt like a tough swallow — was that it was a movement that seemed to go down remarkably easily.
For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
Even more difficult to swallow: Perry likes to put his name in front of a lot of his projects.
It's a hard pill to swallow not because the show isn't good.
Jordan is in an even more delicate position, and a country that ISIS would dearly like to swallow.
Hunger had to be satisfied, however, and I had to swallow my pride and my five-pennyworth.
In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.
The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.
Here was something for the "babes and sucklings" of the craft of violin making to swallow.
I doa'nt swallow that story o' her'n. Depend upon it, man, it be a big lie fro' beginning to end.