Another word for swallow
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Verb
To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach
- To grasp or grip:
- To capture physically; seize:
- To seize with authority or legal right:
- To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
- To take in and absorb as food:
See also:To put up with
Idioms:See also:To do away with completely and destructively.
- To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
- To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble:
- To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:
- To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
- To take in and absorb as food:
- To include habitually or by preference in one's diet:
- To eat up greedily.
- To destroy, consume, or waste:
- To take in eagerly:
See also:To regard (something) as true or real
- To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase.
- To be capable of purchasing:
- To acquire by sacrifice, exchange, or trade:
- To accept as true or real:
- To credit with veracity:
- To expect or suppose; think:
- To answer affirmatively:
- To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).
- To receive (something offered), especially with gladness or approval:
See also:
Noun
An act of swallowing
- To swallow greedily or rapidly in large amounts:
- To choke back by or as if by swallowing.
- To choke or gasp, as in swallowing large amounts of liquid.
See also:
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Another word for swallow
Noun
Verb
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- To drink up rapidly.
- To assemble hastily.
- (UK, vulgar, slang) To masturbate.
- To drink.
- To absorb or take in as if by drinking:
- To receive and absorb into the mind:
- To swallow greedily or in excessive amounts; gulp.
- A deep draft, especially of liquor; a gulp.
- To drink (liquid) or engage in drinking liquid in great gulps.
- A bar made of wood or metal that slides into a socket and is used to fasten doors and gates.
- A metal bar or rod in the mechanism of a lock that is thrown or withdrawn by turning the key.
- A fastener consisting of a threaded pin or rod with a head at one end, designed to be inserted through holes in assembled parts and secured by a mated nut that is tightened by applying torque.
- To drink greedily or grossly:
- To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid:
- To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing:
- To cause (a liquid or granular solid) to stream or flow, as from a container:
- To pour a liquid or particles into (a container):
- To empty (a container) of a liquid or granular solid:
- To help to swallow by drinking a liquid, after eating something, or taking a pill.
- To wash something completely from top to bottom.
- To grasp or grip:
- To capture physically; seize:
- To seize with authority or legal right:
- To swallow greedily or rapidly in large amounts:
- To choke back by or as if by swallowing.
- To choke or gasp, as in swallowing large amounts of liquid.
- To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing:
- To take in as food; eat or drink up.
- To expend; use up:
- To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
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