Synonyms for swallow
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Accept — to put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation
accept, take, stomach, believe, endure, tolerate, take down, bear, pocket, put up with, brook, stand, allow, go, suffer, live with, go along with, abide, digest, bide, forbear, thole UK
2. Gulp — to cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the…
gulp, devour, consume, eat, gobble, use up, quaff, gorge, exhaust, engorge, ingurgitate, ingest, expend, deplete
3. Withdraw — to retract; to recant
take back, withdraw, recant, retract, disown, abjure formal, renounce, disavow, unsay, revoke, forswear
4. Absorb — to take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb
engulf, assimilate, imbibe, integrate, incorporate, overwhelm, absorb dated
Other
get down, eat up, credit, bury, buy, smother, monopolize, monopolise UK, occupy, immerse, engross
Noun
1. Drink
Definitions
- v. 1
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- v. 2
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- v. 3
To retract; to recant.
to swallow one's opinions
- n. 1
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
Related words
Example sentences
- stomach I felt a sharp pain in my stomach all of a sudden.
- tolerate I would say that I tolerate cold better than heat.
- endure They had to endure great hardship during the war.
- devour I enjoy reading so much that I devour a book a week.
- gulp Again he drank, emptying the cup at one deep gulp.
- recant Tom had to recant or face excommunication.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 3 letters
- buy1, eat1, sup1
- 4 letters
- take1, bear1, bury2, gulp1, bide1
- 5 letters
- stand1, allow2, drink1, brook1, abide2, gorge1, thole1, quaff1, unsay
- 6 letters
- credit2, accept2, martin2, pocket2, suffer2, occupy3, endure2, absorb2, digest2, revoke2, devour3, expend2, gobble2, ingest2
- 7 letters
- believe2, stomach2, consume2, exhaust2, retract2, smother2, immerse2, deplete2, disavow3, forbear, engross2, engorge
- 8 letters
- withdraw2, tolerate3, renounce2, forswear2
- 9 letters
- integrate3, overwhelm3
- 10 letters
- assimilate4, monopolize4, monopolise
- 11 letters
- incorporate4, ingurgitate, deglutition
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bury2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- avaler
- Italiano
- ingoiare
- Deutsch
- schlucken
- Català
- empassar-se