Scrabble?! SWALLOW

Definitions of SWALLOW in various dictionaries:

noun - a small amount of liquid food

noun - the act of swallowing

noun - small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

verb - pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking

verb - engulf and destroy

verb - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

verb - utter indistinctly

verb - take back what one has said

verb - keep from expressing

verb - tolerate or accommodate oneself to

verb - believe or accept without questioning or challenge

To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.

To put up with (something unpleasant): swallowed the insults and kept on working.

To refrain from expressing; suppress: swallow one’s feelings.

To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour: a building that was swallowed up by fire.

To believe without question: swallowed the alibi.

To perform the act of swallowing.

The act of swallowing.

An amount swallowed.

The channel through which a rope runs in a block or a mooring chock.

Any of various small, graceful, swift-flying passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, having long, pointed wings, a usually notched or forked tail, and a large mouth for catching flying insects and noted for their regular migrations in large numbers, often over long distances.

Any of various similar birds, such as a swift.

verb - to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach