swallowed
Meaning of swallowed
verb
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- 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.
My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To retract; to recant.
to swallow one's opinions
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
to swallow an affront or insult
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Hyphenation of swallowed
swal-lowed
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- swallowed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
swallowed synonyms
Meaning engulfed:
Meaning :
buy, credit, creed, consume, devour, eat, gulp, absorb, engage, immerse, monopolize, occupy, brook, endure, disavow, unsay, assimilate, engulf, incorporate, overwhelm
Words that rhyme with swallowed
owed, miaowed, bowed, counterembowed, elbowed, embowed, inbowed, outbowed, overbowed, rainbowed, unbowed, underbowed, unelbowed, unimbowed, cowed, scowed, uncowed, beshadowed, disendowed, dowed, endowed, foreshadowed, gablewindowed, indowed, meadowed, overendowed, overshadowed, reendowed, shadowed, underendowed, unendowed, unshadowed, unwidowed, unwindowed, widowed, windowed, meowed, chowed, foreshowed, forhowed, outshowed, preshowed, reshowed, showed, unshowed, jowed, allowed, befurbelowed, bellowed, billowed
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