0 present participle of swallow
1 to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat:
2 If something large swallows (up) another thing, it makes it disappear or stop existing separately by making it part of itself:
An increasing amount of the countryside is being swallowed (up) by the town.
Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies.
3 to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement:
4 to not express or show something:
She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter."
You'll give yourself indigestion if you swallow your dinner so quickly.
Because I'm a bad swimmer, I often go under and swallow a lot of water.
This is due to muscular incoordination during the pharyngeal phase of swallowing.
Swallowing after unilateral stroke of the cerebral cortex: preliminary experience.
For example, a patient's difficulties with swallowing food may cause weight loss.
