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:
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.
We found i that spider monkeys swallowed seeds from almost all of the species from which they ate ripe fruits.
This is well illustrated by the painful experience of a father whose son was swallowed up in such a group.
As a basic science it died as a result of its own success, swallowed by its offspring, high-energy physics.
