Definitions:

1. believe or accept without questioning or challenge verb
   • Am I supposed to swallow that story?
2. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing verb
   • The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
3. engulf and destroy verb
   • The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries
4. keep from expressing verb
   • I swallowed my anger and kept quiet
5. the act of swallowing noun
   • one swallow of the liquid was enough
6. to take back what one has said verb
   • I swallowed my words.
7. utter indistinctly verb
   • You swallowed the last words of your speech.

Synonyms:

• accept
• bury
• drink
• eat up
• get down
• immerse
• live with
• slur
• sup
• swallow up
• take back
• unsay
• withdraw

NearBy Words:

• swallow-tailed
• swallowtail
• swallowwort