completely enclosed or swallowed up
swallowed
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for swallowed.
Editorial note
My dad, who flew both P-51s and P-47s, had an incident in each where the engine swallowed a valve.
Quick take
completely enclosed or swallowed up
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of swallowed gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for swallowed.
adjective
completely enclosed or swallowed up
Example sentences
My dad, who flew both P-51s and P-47s, had an incident in each where the engine swallowed a valve.
How Uber will avoid being swallowed by the competitive beast they created is another, and harder, challenge.
If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.
In a word, a man in a crowd behaves as though he had swallowed a large dose of some powerful intoxicant.
More and more of Android is being swallowed up by Google Play Services.
The MP3 player market and iPods in particular have been swallowed and cannibalized to Apple's discontent by their smartphones and their peers again.
Why would a synchronously thrown error be swallowed, and why would I not just `try { } catch` here?
And american society swallowed this as a whole, without questions, even proudly.
Also, markup errors are silently swallowed when running jekyll --server --auto.
What happens when you merge two conflicting commits is that bugs are swallowed up in merge commits rather than being pinned down to one changeset.
I still wonder if their handset business could have survived if they had swallowed their pride and became just another Android vendor.
In a billion years, the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun's expanding size, and certainly will be obliterated when the Sun goes Super Nova.
Quote examples
There's only me saying, "I'm a little sick of seeing Unity's going swallowed without critique." You characterize that as unfair somehow.
Considering the not-so-well status of his family I think Michał like many from our country swallowed this "American dream" whole -- hook, line and sinker.
” or “ But what if you swallowed a fly by accident?
They haven't been "playing the dumb communist" they've been smeared with it by their own media, by strategic "leaks" from EuroGroup meetings by "analysts" in International Finance and by the International Media which largely swallowed the smears time after time.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use swallowed in a sentence?
My dad, who flew both P-51s and P-47s, had an incident in each where the engine swallowed a valve.
What does swallowed mean?
completely enclosed or swallowed up
What part of speech is swallowed?
swallowed is commonly used as adjective.