0 to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat:
1 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.
2 to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement:
3 to not express or show something:
She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter."
4 an act of using the muscles of your throat, or the amount of something you move into your stomach from your mouth by using the muscles of your throat:
5 a small bird with pointed wings and a tail with two points that flies quickly and catches insects to eat as it flies
6 to force food or liquid in your mouth to move into your stomach by use of the muscles of your throat:
7 to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement:
Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow.
9 any of various types of small bird with pointed wings and a tail shaped like a fork, which flies quickly, catching insects
10 the act of forcing food or liquid in your mouth to move into your stomach, or an amount taken into your stomach at one time :
11 if an activity or process swallows or swallows up a lot of resources, it uses a lot of time, money, or people:
12 if a company swallows or swallows up a smaller one, it buys it and makes it part of its own business:
13 to accept something without doubting or questioning it:
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.
We found i that spider monkeys swallowed seeds from almost all of the species from which they ate ripe fruits.
No trematodes were observed in the lung or air sac, heart, liver, spleen and kidney of all bats and swallows.
Genetic and environmental effects on morphology and fluctuating asymmetry in nesting barn swallows.
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