Found 4 items, similar to Swallowing.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: swallow menelan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: swallow burung layang-layang, mencaplok, menelan, menerima, teguk, walet
English → English (WordNet) Definition: swallow swallow v 1: pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; “Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!” [syn: get down ] 2: engulf and destroy; “The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries” 3: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; “The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter” [syn: immerse, swallow up, bury, eat up] 4: utter indistinctly; “She swallowed the last words of her speech” 5: take back what one has said; “He swallowed his words” [syn: take back, unsay, withdraw] 6: keep from expressing; “I swallowed my anger and kept quiet” 7: 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” [syn: accept, live with] 8: believe or accept without questioning or challenge; “Am I supposed to swallow that story?” swallow n 1: a small amount of liquid food; “a sup of ale” [syn: sup] 2: the act of swallowing; “one swallow of the liquid was enough”; “he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips” [syn: drink, deglutition] 3: small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
English → English (gcide) Definition: Swallowing Swallow \Swal"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swallowing.] [OE. swolewen, swolwen, swolhen, AS. swelgan; akin to D. zwelgen, OHG. swelahan, swelgan, G. schwelgen to feast, to revel, Icel. svelgia to swallow, SW. sv["a]lja, Dan. sv[ae]lge. Cf. Groundsel a plant.] 1. To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink. [1913 Webster] As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses. --Num. xvi. 32. [1913 Webster] 3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly. [1913 Webster] Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 4. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up. [1913 Webster] Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 5. To occupy; to take up; to employ. [1913 Webster] The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. [1913 Webster] Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered. --Thomson. [1913 Webster] 7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions. “Swallowed his vows whole.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult. [1913 Webster] Syn: To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See Absorb. [1913 Webster]