Definition of Swallow

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Swallow

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

To occupy; to take up; to employ.

To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

The act of swallowing.

The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.

That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

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Swallow Quotations

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
Aristotle

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Aldo Leopold

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
Paul Newman

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicolas de Chamfort

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot

Swallow Translations

swallow in Afrikaans is sluk
swallow in Danish is svale
swallow in Dutch is slikken, doorslikken, inslikken
swallow in French is avalons, empiffrer, avaler, hirondelle, avalez
swallow in German is Schwalbe, schlucken, hinunterschlucken
swallow in Italian is rondine, ingoio, divorare
swallow in Portuguese is andorinha
swallow in Spanish is golondrina, andorina

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