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Verb swallow has 8 senses

swallow, get down - pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
--₁ is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have

Derived form: noun swallow₂
Sample sentence:
They swallow more bread
swallow - engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
--₂ is one way to demolish, destroy
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
--₃ is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
swallow - utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"
--₄ is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw - take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
--₅ is one way to renounce, repudiate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
swallow - keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
--₆ is one way to suppress, repress
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
accept, live with, 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 idiosyncracies"
--₇ is one way to digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
swallow - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
--₈ is one way to believe
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE