SWALLOWED Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

swallowed

verb

past tense of swallow

as in sipped

to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat try not to swallow the toothpaste

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as in stifled

to refrain from openly showing or uttering swallowed his pride and asked for help

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as in believed

to regard as right or true my little niece swallows everything I tell her

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Recent Examples of swallowed Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. — Shristi Kafle, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 In Tibet, the roaring mudslide that struck Wednesday engulfed a multistory port building and swallowed a bus parking lot at the land border crossing of Gyirong Port. — Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026 Naegleria fowleri can't infect people if swallowed and isn't spread from person to person. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 One of the themes in Wolf’s Belly is the danger of wanting too much and what happens when we’re swallowed up by our own ambitions. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026 The Denver Broncos swallowed their pride, admitting their mistake with Russell Wilson after two seasons of his five-year, $245 million contract. — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Development in the 1960s swallowed up much of what the lake project spared. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 Abdeen’s days and evenings were swallowed by work and activism. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 Historic statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge have been swallowed up by blinding gold. — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

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The intimate gathering brought together beauty insiders, executives and industry leaders in one room, where attendees sipped on cocktails at the Living Room, followed by a dinner held at Faena New York’s private dining room, La Cava.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026
Crowe was also seen catching up with Michael Bay, who sipped on a Heineken.

— Melody Chiu, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of sipped

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Youri Tielemans and Santos, United’s new midfield partnership, were hooked on 67 minutes, showing the extent to which Hull had stifled them.

— Liam Tharme, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Washington also seemed to open up the playbook, with downfield passing concepts that confused Miami defensive backs and pressure packages that stifled the Dolphins offensive line.

— David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of stifled

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Yields dipped and then rebounded in the wake of the Treasury buyback move, a signal that bond investors believed Bessent's moves were inadequate.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
Schmitt believed that the respective hegemons of the Grossräume should dominate coercively if necessary.

— Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of believed

Verb

Chunks of concrete were flung into a nesting and migration site important to some endangered species and a fire chewed through around 4 acres of Boca Chica State Park Land south of the Texas launchpad.

— Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026
That is to say nothing of periodic smaller disasters, such as last year's Texas floods that engulfed young campers; the Los Angeles wildfires that chewed through entire neighborhoods; and Typhoon Kalmaegi, which walloped Vietnam and the Philippines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of chewed

Verb

That combination, just like QIH, suppressed neuronal firing and stripped out a comparable share of synapses, but the mice came out of it with impaired fear memory.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 22 Aug. 2026
The unknowns attached to Brooks have understandably kept his ADP suppressed.

— Brad Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of suppressed

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The agreement had been offered last year and accepted by the official who oversees the Pentagon's Guantanamo war court, only to be revoked last August by then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin amid criticism of the deal from Republican lawmakers.

— Steve Gorman, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
The sighting still needs to be accepted by the California Bird Records Committee, which reviews and confirms rare bird sightings.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of accepted

Verb

Black took eight carries in Thursday’s victory over the Chargers and turned them into 33 yards.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2026
With Copper scoring 17 points in the third quarter the Mercury got within one point before the Dream took a 73-68 lead into the fourth quarter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

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