Synonyms and Antonyms of swallow

synonym (synonym of swallow)

  • (noun.food)
    sup
    a small amount of liquid food (noun.food)
     
  • (noun.act)
    deglutition, drink
    the act of swallowing (noun.act)
     
  • (verb.consumption)
    get down
    pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking (verb.consumption)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up
    enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.communication)
    slur
    utter indistinctly (verb.communication)
     
  • (verb.communication)
    take back, unsay, withdraw
    take back what one has said (verb.communication)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    accept, live with
    tolerate or accommodate oneself to (verb.cognition)
     

hypernym (swallow IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • a small amount of liquid food (noun.food)
    mouthful, taste
    a small amount eaten or drunk (noun.food)
     
  • believe or accept without questioning or challenge (verb.cognition)
    believe
    accept as true; take to be true (verb.cognition)
     
  • enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing (verb.contact)
    close in, enclose, inclose, shut in
    surround completely (verb.contact)
     
  • engulf and destroy (verb.competition)
    demolish, destroy
    defeat soundly (verb.competition)
     
  • keep from expressing (verb.cognition)
    repress, suppress
    put out of one's consciousness (verb.cognition)
     
  • pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking (verb.consumption)
    consume, have, ingest, take, take in
    serve oneself to, or consume regularly (verb.consumption)
     
  • small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations (noun.animal)
    oscine, oscine bird
    passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal)
     
  • take back what one has said (verb.communication)
    disown, renounce, repudiate
    cast off (verb.communication)
     
  • the act of swallowing (noun.act)
    consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
    the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) (noun.act)
     
  • tolerate or accommodate oneself to (verb.cognition)
    abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant (verb.cognition)
     
  • utter indistinctly (verb.communication)
    mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
    express in speech (verb.communication)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF swallow relation)

  • pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking (verb.consumption)
    bolt
    swallow hastily (verb.consumption)
     
  • small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations (noun.animal)
    barn swallow, chimney swallow, hirundo rustica
    common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. (noun.animal)
     
  • (noun.animal)
    cliff swallow, hirundo pyrrhonota
    North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls (noun.animal)
     
  • (noun.animal)
    hirundo nigricans, tree martin, tree swallow
    of Australia and Polynesia; nests in tree cavities (noun.animal)
     
  • (noun.animal)
    iridoprocne bicolor, tree swallow, white-bellied swallow
    bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities (noun.animal)
     
  • (noun.animal)
    martin
    any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas (noun.animal)
     
  • the act of swallowing (noun.act)
    aerophagia
    swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence) (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    draft, draught, gulp, swig
    a large and hurried swallow (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    sip
    a small drink (noun.act)
     

derivation (.... is derived from swallow)

  • a small amount of liquid food (noun.food)
    sup
    take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon (verb.consumption)
     
  • pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking (verb.consumption)
    deglutition, drink, swallow
    the act of swallowing (noun.act)
     
  • take back what one has said (verb.communication)
    backdown, climb-down, withdrawal
    a retraction of a previously held position (noun.communication)
     
  • the act of swallowing (noun.act)
    drink, imbibe
    take in liquids (verb.consumption)
     
  • (verb.consumption)
    get down, swallow
    pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking (verb.consumption)
     
  • tolerate or accommodate oneself to (verb.cognition)
    acceptance, sufferance, toleration
    a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations (noun.attribute)
     
synonym hypernym hyponym derivation sup deglutition get down bury slur consumption ingestion oscine oscine bird mouthful taste aerophagia draft sip barn swallow cliff swallow hirundo pyrrhonota drink imbibe get down sup acceptance backdown
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Related Words

. sup . deglutition, drink . get down . bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up . slur . take back, unsay, withdraw . accept, live with . mouthful, taste . believe . close in, enclose, inclose, shut in . demolish, destroy . repress, suppress . consume, have, ingest, take, take in . oscine, oscine bird . disown, renounce, repudiate . consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake . abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate . mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize . bolt . barn swallow, chimney swallow, hirundo rustica . cliff swallow, hirundo pyrrhonota . hirundo nigricans, tree martin, tree swallow . iridoprocne bicolor, tree swallow, white-bellied swallow . martin . aerophagia . draft, draught, gulp, swig . sip . sup . deglutition, drink, swallow . backdown, climb-down, withdrawal . drink, imbibe . get down, swallow . acceptance, sufferance, toleration


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