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verb | noun swallowswallow1 /ˈswɑloʊ/ ●●○ S3 verb ETYMOLOGYswallow1Origin: Old English swelgan VERB TABLEswallow |
| Present | I, you, we, they | swallow | | he, she, it | swallows | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | swallowed | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have swallowed | | he, she, it | has swallowed | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had swallowed | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will swallow | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have swallowed |
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| Present | I | am swallowing | | he, she, it | is swallowing | | you, we, they | are swallowing | | Past | I, he, she, it | was swallowing | | you, we, they | were swallowing | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been swallowing | | he, she, it | has been swallowing | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been swallowing | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be swallowing | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been swallowing |
► swallowed hard I swallowed hard and opened the door. ► hard to swallow I found the story a little hard to swallow (=difficult to believe). THESAURUSbe sure something is true► believe to be sure that something is true or that someone is telling the truth: You can’t believe everything you read in the papers. Students weren’t sure who to believe. ► accept to believe what someone says is true or right without asking questions: His wife accepted his explanation for why he was late. ► take somebody’s word informal to accept something someone says: You don’t have to take my word for it – go see for yourself. ► trust to be sure that what someone says is true: You can’t trust anything he says. ► be taken in (by something) to be tricked into believing a story or explanation that is not true: Many tourists were taken in by his stories and gave him their money. ► fall for something informal be taken in by something: I can’t believe she fell for that old excuse! ► buy informal to believe something – used especially in spoken English: I don’t buy it. He’d never make that kind of mistake. ► swallow informal to believe a story or explanation that is not actually true: Did he really think we’d swallow that story? ► give credence to something formal to accept something as true: The jurors gave credence to his testimony because of the details he remembered. 1FOOD [intransitive, transitive] to make food or drink go down your throat and to your stomach: Chew your food well before you swallow.2NERVOUSLY [intransitive] to make a movement with your throat as if you are swallowing food, especially because you are nervous: She swallowed twice, preparing to tell him the truth. I swallowed hard and opened the door.3BELIEVE/ACCEPT [transitive] informal to immediately believe a story, explanation, etc. that is not actually true: I found the story a little hard to swallow (=difficult to believe).► see thesaurus at believe4FEELING [transitive] to stop yourself from showing your feelings, especially bad feelings: Mary tried hard to swallow her anger.5swallow your pride to do something even though it embarrasses you or you feel that you should not have to do it: I swallowed my pride and did as I was told.[Origin: Old English swelgan] → see also a bitter pill (to swallow) at bitter (8)swallow up phrasal verb1swallow something ↔ up if a company, organization, or country swallows up a smaller one, the smaller one becomes part of it and does not exist on its own anymore2literary swallow somebody/something ↔ up to become hidden or covered by something and disappear: He was swallowed up by the fog.3swallow something ↔ up if something swallows up an amount of money, time, etc., it uses a large amount or all of it: Housing costs swallowed up most of their income.4 swallow something ↔ up if land is swallowed up, it is used for building houses, roads, etc. verb | noun swallowswallow2 noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYswallow2Origin: (1) Old English swealwe (2) 1800-1900 ➔ SWALLOW1 1a small bird with a tail in the shape of an upside down V and long pointed wings, that flies quickly and gracefully2an act of making food, drink, etc. go down your throat |