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swallowing

verb

present participle of swallow
1
as in sipping
to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat try not to swallow the toothpaste

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2
as in suppressing
to refrain from openly showing or uttering swallowed his pride and asked for help

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3
as in believing
to regard as right or true my little niece swallows everything I tell her

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Recent Examples of swallowing Enzymes need direct contact with food to do anything, so swallowing one on an empty stomach delivers almost no benefit. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026 Seven Chicago-area residents died after swallowing Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide in September 1982. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026 Located along the coast near the scenic coastal city of Yachats, the dramatic natural feature resembles a bottomless hole swallowing the Pacific Ocean. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2026 In July 2025, a 7-year-old boy nearly died after swallowing magnets from a popular game. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 On Tuesday, September 8, a massive, 30-by-30-foot sinkhole opened directly in front of a Malibu oceanfront home reportedly belonging to Cage, swallowing his driveway whole. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026 As Silicon Valley remakes the world yet again, swallowing up our water and spiking our electricity bills, homelessness remains endemic to that region of California. — Piper French, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026 Conversely, Zumthor’s building—however outsize, expensive, and anomalous—hides in plain sight as a piece of urban engineering, stitching together and swallowing the horizontal city whole. — Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 Avoid swallowing bodies of water and shower in clean water after swimming to reduce the risk of cross-contamination. — Kimberly Baker, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swallowing
  1. sipping
  2. suppressing
  3. believing
  4. chewing
  5. stifling
  6. taking
  7. drinking
  8. accepting
Verb
  • Beneath it, sits Dua Lipa and her agent, sipping gin martinis.
    — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Here, visitors enjoy the panoramic views of the countryside while sipping cups of tea and dipping strips of fresh cassava into local honey.
    — Claire Turrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of sipping
Verb
  • Shifting international conversation The new commitments come as some Haitian observers try to shift the conversation around the crisis beyond suppressing armed gangs to other challenges.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Planting fall cover crops improves soil by reducing compaction, preventing erosion, and suppressing weeds.
    — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of suppressing
Verb
  • The plan at the center of the 2022 WWII movie Operation Mincemeat is to mislead the Axis forces into believing that the Allies will invade Greece rather than Sicily.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
  • A day will surely dawn when those who sought refuge in the long shadow of American bullying—believing that mimicking the language of the mighty could shield them from the claws of power—will stand bare before the truth.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of believing
Verb
  • In the post, Wouter was pictured wearing a dog cone, which is used to prevent pets from licking, chewing or scratching surgical sites or wounds.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Appropriated from a John Cale album, the title accurately describes scenes of bloodletting committed by bizarre, scenery-chewing yakuza members, and the energy hovers somewhere around a bloodier-than-baseline Takashi Miike movie from the mid-2000s.
    — Vadim Rizov, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of chewing
Verb
  • The government has been widely accused of stealing elections, jailing dissidents and stifling freedom of speech.
    — Clyburn Saint John, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • While a label like ‘woman’ has always felt stifling and strange, ‘daughter’ doesn’t carry that heaviness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of stifling
Verb
  • Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.
    — Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Martha and her mother Maria Alberto Gonzalez and his wife, Catalina Gonzalez, remember taking two buses and a train from their home on the North Side to get to the restaurant in the late 1960s.
    — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of taking
Verb
  • The officer, Michael Zerfas, testified that Oates had not been drinking, using drugs or on his cellphone.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The backstory For most of my life, the Old Dutch Inn has been just a faint memory of kicking my legs from a bar stool, drinking a Shirley Temple next to my late grandmother, who would likely have been nursing a gin and tonic.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of drinking
Verb
  • Taylor Swift gave an emotional speech while accepting the award for Video of the Year at the MTV VMAs on September 27.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The page includes several posts criticizing Krell for accepting campaign donations and states that Singh will not accept special interest funds of any kind.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of accepting

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“Swallowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swallowing. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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