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swallowing 音标拼音: [sw'ɑloɪŋ] 吞咽; 下咽运动 吞咽; 下咽运动 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[ aum] lja, Dan. svaelge. 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]
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