Vi fant 20 definisjoner av swallow på engelsk.
Noun |
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| swallow - the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" | ||
| drink, deglutition | ||
| ingestion, uptake, intake, consumption a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids" | ||
| aerophagia swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) | ||
| swig, gulp, draught, draft a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp" | ||
| swallow - small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | ||
| oscine, oscine bird passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus | ||
| barn swallow, hirundo rustica, chimney swallow common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. | ||
| cliff swallow, hirundo pyrrhonota North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls | ||
| hirundo nigricans, tree martin, tree swallow of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities | ||
| iridoprocne bicolor, white-bellied swallow, tree swallow bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities | ||
| swallow - a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale" | ||
| sup | ||
| mouthful, taste the quantity that can be held in the mouth | ||
Verb |
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| swallow - pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" | ||
| get down | ||
| ingest, consume, take in, have, take engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" | ||
| bolt make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric" | ||
| swallow - take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" | ||
| take back, unsay, withdraw | ||
| disown, renounce, repudiate cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" | ||
| swallow - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?" | ||
| believe accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits" | ||
| swallow - keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet" | ||
| repress, suppress block the action of | ||
| swallow - utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech" | ||
| mouth, utter, verbalise, verbalize, speak, talk articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| swallow - engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries" | ||
| demolish, destroy defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors" | ||
| swallow - tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| accept, live with | ||
| brook, abide, stomach, stick out, tolerate, endure, digest, put up, suffer, support, stand, bear bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish" | ||
| swallow - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" | ||
| immerse, swallow up, bury, eat up | ||
| shut in, close in, inclose, enclose advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him" | ||
