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drink, deglutition, sup, accept, live with, take back, unsay, withdraw, get down, immerse, swallow up, bury, eat up Definition: the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips";small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations;a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale";believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?";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 idiosyncracies";keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet";take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words";utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech";engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries";pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won''t kill you!";enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter";
Hyponyms: aerophagia, gulp, draft, draught, swig, nip, sip, barn swallow, chimney swallow, Hirundo rustica, cliff swallow, Hirundo pyrrhonota, tree swallow, tree martin, Hirundo nigricans, white-bellied swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, martin, bolt Derivational Morphology:
drink, imbibe, get down, sup, toleration, acceptance, sufferance, withdrawal, backdown, climb-down, deglutition
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