Dictionary Entry
swallow
swallow is a 7-letter English word with 29 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
- 2noun
Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
- 3noun
The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
- 4transitive verb
To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
- 5transitive verb
To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
- 6transitive verb
To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
- 7transitive verb
To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
- 8transitive verb
To occupy; to take up; to employ.
- 9transitive verb
To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
- 10transitive verb
To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
- 11transitive verb
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
- 12intransitive verb
To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
- 13noun
The act of swallowing.
- 14noun
The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
- 15noun
Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
- 16noun
Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
- 17noun
As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
- 18noun
That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
- 19noun
the act of swallowing
"one swallow of the liquid was enough"
"he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
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- 20noun
small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- 21noun
a small amount of liquid food
"a sup of ale"
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- 22verb
believe or accept without questioning or challenge
"Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
- 23verb
tolerate or accommodate oneself to
"I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"
"I swallowed the insult"
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- 24verb
keep from expressing
"I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
- 25verb
take back what one has said
"He swallowed his words"
- 26verb
utter indistinctly
"She swallowed the last words of her speech"
- 27verb
engulf and destroy
"The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
- 28verb
pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
"Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
- 29verb
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
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