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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. 越来越多的乡村被城镇吞没。
Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies. 很多小企业已经被大公司吞并了。
Taxes have swallowed up nearly half of my pay increase. 我的加薪有近一半都被税收抵消了。
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." 她抑制住自己的失望说:“没事,没关系。”
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