0 past simple and past 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: --
Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies.
An increasing amount of the countryside is being swallowed (up) by the town.
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."
The factory she starts work in on leaving school is eventually bought by a larger company, which is swallowed up by a multi-national.
Indeed, how might such an order be maintained if the "whole population" were swallowed up by an undifferentiated mass of filth?
In this study, we estimated dispersal distances and deposition sites of seeds swallowed by two gibbon groups, using gut transit times and daily ranging patterns.
Tablets should not be swallowed in the semi-supine or supine position, and/or sufficient fluid should be taken with large tablets.
Polyhydramnios may be secondary to oesophageal obstruction/compression thus reducing the volume of liquor swallowed.
Care was taken that the chicken swallowed the entire inoculum.
In a famous sequence, he throws himself face down on the conveyer belt and is swallowed by the machine.
The way out seemed to be either to swallow or be swallowed by ' ' all.
