swallow: význam a definície

To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.

To put up with (something unpleasant): swallowed the insults and kept on working.

To refrain from expressing; suppress: swallow one's feelings.

To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour: a building that was swallowed up by fire.

Slang To believe without question: swallowed the alibi.

To take back; retract: swallow one's words.

To say inarticulately; mumble: The actor swallowed his lines.

To perform the act of swallowing.

The act of swallowing.

An amount swallowed.

Nautical The channel through which a rope runs in a block or a mooring chock.

Any of various small graceful swift-flying passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a usually notched or forked tail, and a large mouth for catching flying insects and noted for their regular migrations in large numbers, often over long distances.

Any of various similar birds, such as a swift.