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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Swallow \Swal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Swallowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swallowing}.] [OE. swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS. swelgan; akin to D. zwelgen, OHG. swelahan, swelgan, G. schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. svelgia to swallow, SW. sv[84]lja, Dan. sv[91]lge. Cf. {Groundsel} a plant.] 1. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. --Shak. 2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. --Milton. The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses. --Num. xvi. 32. 3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed. --Sir T. Browne. 4. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. --Pope. 5. To occupy; to take up; to employ. The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time. --Locke. 6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered. --Thomson. 7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. [bd]Swallowed his vows whole.[b8] --Shak. 8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. Syn: To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See {Absorb}. | |
