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.