Definitions for swallow

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swallow swal·low

Spelling: [swol-oh]

IPA: /ˈswɒl oʊ/

Swallow is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in swallow (allosww).

Definitions for swallow

noun

1. the act or an instance of swallowing.
2. a quantity swallowed at one time; a mouthful:
3. capacity for swallowing.
4. 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.
5. any of numerous small, long-winged passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, noted for their swift, graceful flight and for the extent and regularity of their migrations. Compare bank swallow, barn swallow, martin.
6. any of several unrelated, swallowlike birds, as the chimney swift.

verb (used with object)

1. to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
2. to take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb:
3. to accept without question or suspicion.
4. to accept without opposition; put up with:
5. to accept for lack of an alternative:
6. to suppress (emotion, a laugh, a sob, etc.) as if by drawing it down one's throat.
7. to take back; retract:
8. to enunciate poorly; mutter:

verb (used without object)

1. to perform the act of swallowing.

Origin of swallow

before 1000; (v.) Middle English swalwen, variant of swelwen, Old English swelgan; cognate with German schwelgen; akin to Old Norse svelgja; (noun) Middle English swalwe, swolgh throat, abyss

Examples for swallow

And the amount of stories Mark, with all his contemplativeness could swallow, was amazing.

Even more difficult to swallow: Perry likes to put his name in front of a lot of his projects.

And yet you have only skimmed the beautiful river's surface as a swallow skims a lake.

He was just in time to swallow a hurried meal and set off to the theatre with the Creams.

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

Jordan is in an even more delicate position, and a country that ISIS would dearly like to swallow.

Again, Garson was forced to wet his lips with a dry tongue, and to swallow painfully.

For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.

Andrew paused in the shallows to allow Sally one swallow; then he went on.

It's a hard pill to swallow not because the show isn't good.