swallow

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
2. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
3. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
4. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
5. (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
6. (transitive) To retract; to recant.
7. (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

Noun

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
2. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
3. (countable, uncountable) The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
4. (countable, uncountable) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
5. (Nigeria, countable, uncountable) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.

Noun

A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

Sinònims

gulp

drink

🥤

devour

gulp down

eat

🍽️

engulf

ingest

eat up

consume

deglutition

absorb

sip

martin

swallow up

bird

🐦

suck

accept

🉑

guzzle

choke

get down

believe

bury

suppress

down

quaff

imbibe

live with

barn swallow

lick

stomach

ligule

sup

swift

swig

take

take back

take in

tolerate

meal

unsay

uvula

buy

🛍️

withdraw

sparrow

gorge

eat greedily

cooked rice

immerse

hirundinidae

whole

permit

pocket

preoccupy

quash

quell

quench

quiet

refrain

release

repress

retract

send

sink

smother

stifle

strangle

suffocate

throat

to

trust

understand

voracity

withdrawn

wolf down

force back

knock back

sea bird

small person

stuff in

swallow whole

ingulf

cry bitterly

swallow down

gulp down one’s saliva

accept without question

amount passed down throat

glip

taking down throat

allow to go

devour To fill

get outside of

welcome swallow

pocket without a hitch

appropriate

bear

🐻

believe in

bet

bolt

bolus

brush off

chew

choke down

choke off

comfort

commit

condone

countenance

cram

credit

cut down

dampen

digest

dine

dodge

draft

dram

draught

drinking

embezzle

endure

engross

entrust

envelop

envelope

✉️

expand

gluttony

gobble

gobble up

gormandize

gulf

hold back

infer

keep quiet

kite

🪁

listen

little bird

loosen

mouthful

muffle

off

overlay

penis

Traduccions

avaler

hirondelle

tragar

schlucken

Schwalbe

golondrina

slikken

zwaluw

aronde

doorslikken

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈswɒ.ləʊ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swolowen

Heretat de anglès antic: swelgan

Cognat amb neerlandès: zwelgen

Cognat amb alemany: schwelgen

Cognat amb suec: svälja

Cognat amb islandès: svelgja

Cognat amb anglès antic: swillan

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swelwe

Heretat de anglès antic: swelh

Cognat amb anglès antic: swiliġe

Cognat amb escocès: swelch

Cognat amb Middle Low German: swelch

Cognat amb neerlandès: zwelg

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: svelgr

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swalwe

Heretat de anglès antic: swealwe

Cognat amb danès: -

Cognat amb noruec: svale

Cognat amb neerlandès: zwaluw

Cognat amb alemany: Schwalbe

Cognat amb suec: svala

In summary

From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swolȝen, swelwen, swelȝen, from Old English swelgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swelgan, from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.
The noun is from Middle English swelwe, swolwe, from Old English swelh, swelg (“gulf, chasm”) and ġeswelge (“gulf, chasm, abyss, whirlpool”), both from Proto-West Germanic *swelg, *swalgi, from Proto-Germanic *swelgaz, *swalgiz. Cognate with Old English swiliġe (“pit”), Scots swelch, swellie, swallie (“an abyss in the sea, whirpool”), Middle Low German swelch (“whirlpool, eddy”), Dutch zwelg (“gorge, chasm, gullet, throat”), Old Norse svelgr (“whirlpool, current, stream”).