Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swallowed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

As if I had swallowed snowballs for pills. --Shak.

2. To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb --
usually followed by up. --Milton.

The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their houses. --Num. xvi.
32.

3. To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without
examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

Though that story . . . be not so readily swallowed.
--Sir T.
Browne.

4. To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the
honor of those who succeeded him. --Pope.

5. To occupy; to take up; to employ.

The necessary provision of the life swallows the
greatest part of their time. --Locke.

6. To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty
scattered. --Thomson.

7. To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
``Swallowed his vows whole.'' --Shak.

8. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation;
as, to swallow an affront or insult.

Syn: To absorb; imbibe; ingulf; engross; consume. See
{Absorb}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

swallowed
adj : completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in
flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed
by night" [syn: {engulfed}, {enveloped}]


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