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swallowed
transitive verb
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: to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach
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: to envelop or take in as if by swallowing : absorb <swallow the financial loss> <watch night swallow the valley>
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: to accept without question, protest, or resentment <swallow an insult> <a hard story to swallow>
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: take back, retract <had to swallow my words>
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: to keep from expressing or showing : repress <swallowed my anger>
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: to utter (as words) indistinctly
intransitive verb
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: to receive something into the body through the mouth and esophagus
2
: to perform the action characteristic of swallowing something especially under emotional stress
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