Synonyms for Swallow:

adj.
• susceptible
- easily moved
- non-resistant
- nonresistant
- out on limb
- sensile
- wide open
- sitting duck
- suggestible
n.
• animal
- swallow
• bird
- Canada Goose
- albatross
- bald eagle
- barn owl
- bird
- bittern
- blackbird
- blue jay
- bluebill
- bluebird
- booby
- bullfinch
- buzzard
- canary
- cardinal
- cassowary
- chickadee
- cockatoo
- condor
- coot
- cormorant
- crane
- crested jay
- crow
- cuckoo
- curlew
- dodo
- dove
- duck
- eagle
- egret
- emu
- falcon
- finch
- flamingo
- goldfinch
- goose
- grackle
- grosbeak
- grouse
- gull
- harrier
- hawk
- heron
- horned owl
- hummingbird
- ibis
- jackdaw
- jay
- kingfisher
- lark
- loon
- lovebird
- macaw
- magpie
- mallard
- mockingbird
- mourning dove
- myna
- nightingale
- nuthatch
- oriole
- osprey
- ostrich
- owl
- parakeet
- parrot
- partridge
- peacock
- pelican
- penguin
- peregrine
- pheasant
- pigeon
- plover
- puffin
- quetzal
- raven
- redbird
- redwing
- ringtail
- road runner
- robin
- rook
- sandpiper
- sea gull
- sheldrake
- snipe
- songbird
- sparrow
- spoonbill
- squab
- starling
- stork
- swan
- swift
- teal
- tern
- thrush
- tit
- turkey
- turtledove
- vulture
- waxwing
- weaver
- woodpecker
- wren
- yellowbird
• drink
- thirst quencher
• taste
- Mouthfuls
- Spoonfuls
- canape
- canapes
- samplings
- spoonful
- titbit
- titbits
v.
• abide
- am big about
- are big about
- art big about
- being big about
- hang there
- hanged in
- hanged in there
- hanged there
- hanging in there
- hanging there
- hangs in
- hangs in there
- hangs there
- hung in
- hung there
- is big about
- lived with
- lives with
- puts with
- putting with
- was big about
- wast big about
- were big about
- wert big about
- with stand
- with standing
- with stands
- with stood
- with-stand
- with-standing
- with-stands
- with-stood
• absorb
- Osmoses
- drank in
- drinks in
- drunk in
- in gest
- in gests
- in-gest
- in-gests
- osmosed
- osmosing
- sopping up
- sops up
- sponged up
- sponges up
- sponging up
- sucking in
- sucks in
• accept
- deferring to
- defers to
- don't rock boat
- dont make waves
- dont rock boat
- dont rock the boat
- fits in
- fitted in
- fitting in
- held with
- holding with
- holds with
- play game
- played game
- played the game
- playing game
- plays game
- plays the game
- re cognize
- re cognized
- re cognizes
- re cognizing
- re spect
- re spects
- re-cognize
- re-cognized
- re-cognizes
- re-cognizing
- re-spect
- re-spects
- sat still for
- sate still for
- sits still for
- sitting still for
- submits to
- takes as gospel truth
- takes stock in
- taking as gospel truth
- taking stock in
- took as gospel truth
- took stock in
- yielded to
- yielding to
- yields to
• believe
- am certain of
- am convinced of
- am credulous
- am of opinion
- am of the opinion
- am opinion
- am the opinion
- are certain of
- are convinced of
- are credulous
- are opinion
- are the opinion
- art certain of
- art convinced of
- art credulous
- art of opinion
- art opinion
- art the opinion
- attached weight to
- attaches weight to
- attaching weight to
- be lieve
- be opinion
- be the opinion
- be-lieve
- being certain of
- being convinced of
- being credulous
- being of opinion
- being of the opinion
- being opinion
- being the opinion
- gave credence to
- gives credence to
- giving credence to
- had faith in
- haddest no doubt
- hadst faith in
- hadst no doubt
- has faith in
- hast no doubt
- hath faith in
- hath no doubt
- having no doubt
- is certain of
- is convinced of
- is credulous
- is of opinion
- is opinion
- is the opinion
- keeping faith
- keeps faith
- kept faith
- kept the faith
- lapping up
- laps up
- placed confidence in
- places confidence in
- placing confidence in
- pre suppose
- pre supposed
- pre supposes
- pre supposing
- pre-suppose
- pre-supposed
- pre-supposes
- pre-supposing
- presumed true
- presuming true
- re gards
- re-gard
- reckoned on
- reckoning on
- reckons on
- rested assured
- resting assured
- rests assured
- take at ones word
- take one word
- take one's word
- take ones word
- takes at one word
- takes at one's word
- takes at ones word
- takes at word
- takes one word
- takes one's word
- takes ones word
- takes word
- taking at one word
- taking at one's word
- taking at ones word
- taking at word
- taking one word
- taking one's word
- taking ones word
- taking word
- took as gospel
- took at one word
- took at one's word
- took at ones word
- took at word
- took one word
- took one's word
- took ones word
- took word
- under stand
- under standing
- under stands
- under stood
- under-standing
- under-stands
- under-stood
- was certain of
- was convinced of
- was of opinion
- was of the opinion
- was opinion
- was the opinion
- wast certain of
- wast credulous
- wast of the opinion
- wast opinion
- wast the opinion
- were certain of
- were convinced of
- were credulous
- were of opinion
- were of the opinion
- were opinion
- were the opinion
- wert certain of
- wert convinced of
- wert credulous
- wert of opinion
- wert opinion
- wert the opinion
• brook
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- am big
- are big
- art big
- is big
- was big
- wast big
- were big
- wert big
• countenance
- gat behind
- gave green light
- gave nod
- gave stamp approval
- give stamp approval
- gives green light
- gives stamp approval
- gives stamp of approval
- gives the nod
- giving green light
- giving nod
- giving stamp approval
- giving stamp of approval
- giving the nod
- got behind
- gotten behind
- grin bear it
- grinned and bear it
- grinned bear it
- grinning and bear it
- grinning bear it
- grins bear it
- in vite
- nodded at
- nodding at
- nods at
- puts john hancock on
- putting john hancock on
- signed off on
- signing off on
- signs off on
- signs on
- smiled on
- smiles on
- smiling on
- stomached something
- stomachs something
- thumbsed up
- thumbses up
- thumbsing up
- up held
- up hold
- up holding
- up holds
- up-held
- up-hold
- up-holding
- up-holds
• credit
- hand it one
- hand one
- hand to one
- handed it one
- handed it to one
- handed one
- handed to one
- handing it one
- handing it to one
- handing one
- handing to one
- hands it to one
- hands one
- hands to one
- pat back
- pats on back
- patted back
- patted on back
- patting back
- patting on back
• digest
- chymified
- chymifies
- chymifying
- dis solve
- dis solved
- dis solves
- dis solving
- dis-solve
- dis-solved
- dis-solves
- dis-solving
- in corporate
- in corporates
- in-corporate
- in-corporates
• drain
- bled dry
- bleeding dry
- bleeds dry
- de crease
- de creased
- de creases
- de creasing
- de vitalize
- de vitalized
- de vitalizes
- de vitalizing
- de-crease
- de-creased
- de-creases
- de-creasing
- de-vitalize
- de-vitalized
- de-vitalizes
- de-vitalizing
- drank up
- draws off
- drew off
- drinking up
- drinks up
- drunk up
- ex pend
- ex pended
- ex pending
- ex pends
- ex-pend
- ex-pended
- ex-pending
- ex-pends
- filtered off
- filtering off
- filters off
- freed from
- freeing from
- gat last drop
- gets last drop
- getting last drop
- got last drop
- gotten last drop
- gulped down
- gulping down
- gulps down
- re duce
- re duces
- re-duce
- re-duces
- uses up
- with draw
- with drawing
- with drawn
- with draws
- with drew
- with-draw
- with-drawing
- with-drawn
- with-drew
• drink
- carouse
• eat
- dis patch
- dis patched
- dis patches
- dis patching
- dis-patch
- dis-patched
- dis-patches
- dis-patching
- feast up on
- feasted up on
- feasted upon
- feasting up on
- feasting upon
- feasts up on
- gobbles up
- gobbling up
- had bite
- had for
- had meal
- haddest a bite
- haddest a meal
- haddest bite
- haddest for
- haddest meal
- hadst a bite
- hadst a meal
- hadst bite
- hadst for
- hadst meal
- has a bite
- has a meal
- has bite
- has for
- has meal
- hast a bite
- hast a meal
- hast bite
- hast for
- hast meal
- hath a bite
- hath a meal
- hath bite
- hath for
- hath meal
- have bite
- have meal
- having a bite
- having bite
- having for
- having meal
- made pig of oneself
- made pig oneself
- make pig oneself
- makes pig of oneself
- makes pig oneself
- making pig of oneself
- making pig oneself
- pecked at
- pecking at
- pecks at
- porked out
- porking out
- porks out
- takes food
- takes nourishment
- took food
- took nourishment
• eat up
• endure
- am patient with
- are patient with
- art patient with
- bare brunt
- bare the brunt
- beared brunt
- beared the brunt
- bearing brunt
- bearing the brunt
- bears brunt
- bears the brunt
- being patient with
- bore brunt
- bore the brunt
- copes with
- is patient with
- lived out
- lives out
- living out
- living through
- meets with
- nevered say die
- nevering say die
- nevers say die
- repressed feelings
- represses feelings
- repressing feelings
- resigned oneself
- resigning oneself
- resigns oneself
- rid out
- rides out
- riding out
- rode out
- sat through
- sate through
- sits through
- sitting through
- sticks it out
- stuck it out
- subjected to
- subjecting to
- subjects to
- taking patiently
- took patiently
- un derwent
- un-derwent
- under going
- under gone
- under went
- under-going
- under-gone
- under-went
- was patient with
- wast patient with
- were patient with
• face
- am confronted by
- are confronted by
- art confronted by
- being confronted by
- bits bullet
- bits the bullet
- bitted bullet
- bitted the bullet
- bitting bullet
- bitting the bullet
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flies face of
- fly face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- goes against
- goes up against
- going against
- going up against
- grappled with
- grapples with
- is confronted by
- made a stand
- made stand
- make stand
- makes a stand
- makes stand
- making a stand
- making stand
- ran in to
- run in to
- running in to
- runs in to
- take bull by horns
- take the bull by horns
- takes the bull by horns
- takes the bull by the horns
- taking bull by horns
- taking the bull by horns
- taking the bull by the horns
- took bull by horns
- took bull by the horns
- took the bull by horns
- took the bull by the horns
- was confronted by
- went against
- went up against
- were confronted by
- wert confronted by
• go
- consenting to
- consents to
• gobble
- sucked up
- sucking up
- sucks up
• gorge
- ate like a horse
- ate like horse
- blimped out
- blimping out
- blimps out
- eat like horse
- eating like a horse
- eating like horse
- eats like a horse
- eats like horse
- made a pig of
- made pig of
- make pig of
- makes a pig of
- makes pig of
- making a pig of
- making pig of
- over eaten
- over eating
- over indulge
- over indulged
- over indulges
- over indulging
- over-eaten
- over-eating
- over-indulge
- over-indulged
- over-indulges
- over-indulging
• gulp
- choked down
- chokes down
- choking down
- chugalugged
- chugalugging
- chugalugs
- dis pose
- dis posing
- dis-pose
- dis-posing
- scarfed down
- scarfing down
- scarfs down
- wolfing down
• hang tough
- gut out
- guts it out
- gutted it out
- gutted out
- gutting it out
- gutting out
- sticked in there
- sticked there
- sticking there
- sticks in there
- sticks there
- stuck in there
- stuck there
- toughed out
- toughing it out
- toughs out
• imbibe
- raise few
- raised a few
- raised few
- raises a few
- raises few
- raising a few
- raising few
• mumble
- said oneself
- said to oneself
- say oneself
- saying oneself
- saying to oneself
- says oneself
- says to oneself
• receive
- access
- acquire
- admit
- inspire
Other synonyms:

•

waste

•

touch

•

indulge
nosh
quench

•

consumption
suffer

•

manage

•

taste

Other relevant words:

• abide

• believe

• consume

• credit

hand it to one

• drink

• drink down

quaff

• eat

• eat up

stand still for

• endure

• go through

going through

• imbibe

raise a few

• ingurgitate

engorge

• sip

Sipped

• support

sweat out
sweating out

• take

• Other relevant words (adjective):

knowledge

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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- Noun, singular or mass
  swig.
- Verb, base form
  accept, chug, digest, eating, grab, inhale, stomach, Drank, accepts.
Other Related
- Proper noun, singular
  hirondelle.

What are the hypernyms for Swallow?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for swallow (as nouns)
- animal
  Hirundo Pyrrhonota, Iridoprocne Bicolor, Hirundo Rustica, barn swallow, white-bellied swallow, tree martin, martin, tree swallow, chimney swallow, cliff swallow, Hirundo Nigricans.
hypernyms for swallow (as verbs)
- consumption
  bolt.

What are the hyponyms for Swallow?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for swallow (as nouns)
- animal
  oscine, oscine bird.
hyponyms for swallow (as verbs)
- cognition
  hold back, keep, believe, restrain, keep back.
- communication
  mouth, verbalise, utter, verbalize, talk, speak.
- competition
  demolish, destroy.

What are the opposite words for swallow?

The word "swallow" typically means to consume food or liquid by moving it from the mouth to the stomach. However, its antonyms refer to actions that involve pushing things out of the body or preventing them from being consumed. Some common antonyms of "swallow" include spit, vomit, regurgitate and expel. Spit means to force something out of the mouth or to discharge saliva. Vomit means to throw up or eject food or liquid from the stomach through the mouth. Regurgitate refers to the process of bringing up undigested food from the throat or esophagus, whereas expel means to forcibly remove something from the body.

What are the antonyms for Swallow?

v.
• consume
- abstain
- disbelieve
- doubt
- expel
- hold
- keep
- nibble
- regurgitate
- spit out
• eject saliva or substance
- spit
• spit
- Hawked
- dis charge
- dis charged
- dis charges
- dis charging
- dis-charge
- dis-charged
- dis-charges
- dis-charging
- hawking
- sizz
- sizzed
- sizzes
- sizzing
- spritz
- spritzed
- spritzes
- spritzing
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Usage examples for Swallow

swallow, taking her pace with all McGloin's nerve and skill, had caught her before she had traveled half a dozen yards.

"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"

W. B. M. Ferguson

swallow, with the odds-two to one-on.

"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"

W. B. M. Ferguson

swallow it like a dear fellow!

"The Lamp in the Desert"

Ethel M. Dell

Famous quotes with Swallow

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Henry Adams
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Pearl Bailey
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

Abu Bakar Bashir
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Richard Blackmore

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Synonyms for Swallow:

adj.

n.

v.

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