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/ˈswɒl.əʊ/ · verb
(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat..
What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.
The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean's hungry maw, was never found.
Elsewhere still, they'd managed to find the wreck of a Japanese midget submarine, and so, when the battleships were done being swallowed by the seabed, some efforts were being made to haul this up as well.
My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
Use swallow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swallow means (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat..
Common synonyms include martin, consume, devour, eat.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
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