swallow

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swallow

  1. laululintu, pääskynen, pääsky, haarapääsky, Hirundo rustica, amerikanpääsky, Hirundo pyrrhonota, Hirundo nigricans, kelopääsky, Iridoprocne bicolor.

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pääsky

nielaista puhekieltä To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. (defdate)
1898, (w), (w) Chapter 4:

What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
2011, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 21 Apr 2011:
Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
puhekieltä To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. (defdate)
John Locke
The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
2010, "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist, 28 Oct 2010:
His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
puhekieltä 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. (defdate)

My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow.

1979, VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic:
She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
puhekieltä To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. (defdate)
Sir Thomas Browne
Though that story (..) be not so readily swallowed.
2011, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 22 Apr 2011:
Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
Alexander Pope
Homer excels (..) in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
To retract; to recant.

to swallow ones opinions''

Shakespeare
swallowed his vows whole
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

to swallow an affront or insult

puhekieltä A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.

He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
puhekieltä The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

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svetisismi, sviitti, svingi, swahilin kieli, swap, swing

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