swallow

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Editorial note

But let's not swallow everything that the article said.

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Quick take

a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of swallow gathered in one view.

noun

a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"

noun

the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

noun

small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for swallow.

noun

a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"

noun

the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

noun

small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

verb

pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"

verb

engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"

verb

enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

verb

utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"

verb

take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"

verb

keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"

verb

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"

verb

believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"

Example sentences

But let's not swallow everything that the article said.

It's so direct and he never coats his arguments to make them easier to swallow.

I particularly found the breathless 'he could break in to almost any on-line bank at any time' stuff a bit hard to swallow.

The level of craziness starts off low then climbs in step as you effectively prove at each step that you are credulous enough to swallow the next stage up.

Intellectual Ventures is now the bitter pill tech giants have to swallow to maintain their intellectual monopolies.

My guess is that 80% of the parents on Hacker News don't even know that swallowing a tiny smooth round magnet is more dangerous to a toddler than swallowing a nail.

Just swallow your pride, play "Stairway to Heaven"[1] at the wedding, and pretend you've never had crazy eyes when talking about homoiconicity, and the rent will be paid.

"[W]hen these high-powered magnets are swallowed, endoscopic or surgical intervention is required in nearly all cases to prevent bowel damage.

When people really, really swallow the Kool-Aid of management as the ultimate masters of the universe, as they must in certain large corporations, they start to think of management as the final step in human development: infant, child, adolescent, worker, manager.

But if you happen to swallow two tiny rare earth magnets, what can happen is that they latch together on opposing sides of loops of small intestine, gradually digging their way through the tissue and spilling gut bacteria into the abdominal cavity, which results in sepsis.

The willingness for people to quickly swallow and parrot a 1-dimensional narrative of "Paul Graham, sexist pig" based upon a few quotes taken out of context in a highly edited, 3rd hand rage-blog by fucking Vallywag is the type of behavior I expect from political spinmeister hacks trotted out on the 24 hour news channels, not from smart people who I respect.