swallowed

Meaning

of Swallow

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

absorbed ate swallow ingest chug engorged eat up swallow up unsay drank consumed eaten downed swallowing

Antonyms

suspected grilled

Phrases with the word

be swallowed up having swallowed a watermelon seed

Examples

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. Gabriel García Márquez

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. John Wesley

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is no flavour in a swallowed morsel. French Proverb

He avoided the fly and swallowed the spider. Portuguese Proverb

Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth. Madagascan Proverb