swallow
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
Đồng nghĩa: consume, devour, eat, gulp
- 2.
(transitive)To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
Đồng nghĩa: absorb, engulf, incorporate, swallow up, absorb, add on, assimilate, co-opt, corporate, incorporate, incorpse, integrate, subsume, swallow
- 3.
(intransitive)To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
Đồng nghĩa: gulp
- 4.
(transitive)To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
Đồng nghĩa: buy, credit
- 5.
(intransitive)To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
Đồng nghĩa: absorb, monopolize, occupy, take over
- 6.
(transitive)To retract; to recant.
to swallow one's opinions
Đồng nghĩa: disavow, take back, abjure, backpedal, disavow, disown, eat one's words, recall, recant, retract, revoke, swallow, take back, unsay, unspeak, walk back, withcall, withdraw
- 7.
(transitive)To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
to swallow an affront or insult
Đồng nghĩa: endure, live with, abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo
- 8.
(slang)To fellate; perform oral sex.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- 2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- 5.
(Nigeria, countable, uncountable)Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- 6.
A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
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From Middle English swolwen, from Old English swelgan, from *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (to swallow, revel, devour), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (to gulp). Cognate with zwelgen, schwelgen, svælge, svelge, svelgje, svälja, svølgja, svelgja, swillan, swilian (to swill, wash out, gargle). See also swill.