Swallow - English meaning

verb

Take in or soak up (energy or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action.

Usage examples:

Buildings can be designed to absorb and retain heat

verb

To take in a liquid, gas, or chemical

Usage examples:

The black clay soil around here doesn’t absorb water very well., fig. the country has absorbed mill…

verb

If an organization absorbs the cost of something, it pays that cost

Usage examples:

The law school has absorbed most of the expenses so far, but it may have to offer fewer places next…

verb

Take in and understand fully (information or ideas).

Usage examples:

Marie tried to assimilate the week's events

verb

To take in and make a part of your basic knowledge something learned from others, so that you can use it as your own

Usage examples:

[ t ] we hoped the students would assimilate the information contained in the lecture., [ t ] once …

verb

Put or hide underground.

Usage examples:

He buried the box in the back garden

verb

Place in a grave or tomb

verb

To put a dead body into the ground

Usage examples:

My father is buried in kentucky., squirrels bury nuts and dig them up later to eat them., she burie…

verb

Eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink).

Usage examples:

People consume a good deal of sugar in drinks

verb

To use fuel, energy, or time, esp. in large amounts

Usage examples:

Weekend shopping chores consumed much of her time., they consume a lot of candy., fire had consumed…

verb

To use something such as fuel, energy, money, or time, especially in large quantities

Usage examples:

It's a province of china which consumes 180,000 tons of coal a year., this device will monitor how …

verb

Eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.

Usage examples:

He devoured half of his burger in one bite

verb

To eat eagerly and in large amounts, so that nothing is left

Usage examples:

He devoured the entire plate of spaghetti., fig. she devoured (= read eagerly and quickly) the nove…

verb

Take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow.

Usage examples:

We sat by the fire, drinking our tea

noun

A liquid that can be swallowed as refreshment or nourishment.

Usage examples:

Fizzy drinks

verb

Take in liquids

verb

Die through submersion in and inhalation of water.

Usage examples:

A motorist drowned when her car plunged off the edge of a quay

verb

Kill by submerging in water

verb

To die by being under water and unable to breathe, or to kill someone by causing this to happen

Usage examples:

[ i ] he drowned in a boating accident., [ always + adv/prep ] drowning in debt/sorrow

verb

Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.

Usage examples:

He was eating a hot dog

noun

Light food or snacks.

Usage examples:

These make great party eats

abbreviation

Tanzania (international vehicle registration).

verb

(of a natural force) sweep over (something) so as to surround or cover it completely.

Usage examples:

The cafe was engulfed in flames

verb

To surround and cover completely

Usage examples:

Floodwaters engulfed midwestern farmlands.

verb

Eat or drink (something) greedily.

Usage examples:

He would guzzle his ale

verb

To drink or eat something eagerly or in large amounts

Usage examples:

He sat in the shade, guzzling cold soda.

verb

Drink (alcohol).

Usage examples:

They were imbibing far too many pitchers of beer

verb

To drink

verb

Take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include.

Usage examples:

He has incorporated in his proposals a number of measures

adjective

Another term for incorporated.

verb

Take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.

Usage examples:

Lead will poison anyone if enough is ingested

verb

To take food or liquid into the stomach

Usage examples:

These mushrooms are poisonous if ingested.

verb

Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.

Usage examples:

We've been inundated with complaints from listeners

verb

To bring to a place or person too much of something, so that it cannot be dealt with

Usage examples:

After appearing on tv they were inundated with telephone calls for a week., we were inundated with …

verb

Succeed in dealing with (a problem or difficulty).

Usage examples:

He overcame his pain for a time

verb

Spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers.

Usage examples:

The mediterranean has been overrun by tourists

noun

An instance of something exceeding an expected or allowed time or cost.

Usage examples:

The cost overrun caused the company's share price to fall

verb

To spread over an area quickly and in large numbers

Usage examples:

The city has become increasingly unpleasant because it is overrun with tourists.

verb

Bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water.

Usage examples:

Floodwaters overwhelmed hundreds of houses

phrasal verb

Quickly finish or consume something.

Usage examples:

They polished off most of the sausages

phrasal verb

To finish something quickly and easily

Usage examples:

He polished off two burgers and a mountain of french fries.

verb

Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily.

Usage examples:

He quaffed pint after pint of good berkshire ale

noun

An alcoholic drink.

Usage examples:

Porter is a dark, malty quaff

verb

To drink something quickly or in large amounts

verb

Speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.

Usage examples:

Patrick professed to scoff at soppy love scenes in films

noun

An expression of scornful derision.

Usage examples:

Scoffs of disbelief

noun

Food.

Usage examples:

Ice cream was seen as suitable scoff to keep the under-tens quiet

noun

An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.

Usage examples:

They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and pe…

verb

Overwhelm or flood with water.

Usage examples:

A huge wave swamped the canoes

noun

An area of very wet, soft land

Usage examples:

[ c ] alligators live in these swamps., a low-lying, swampy region, the boat was swamped by an enor…

idiom

Eat quickly