Synonyms of swallowing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sipping
• chewing
• drinking
• eating
• ingesting
• licking
• downing
• consuming
• getting down
• gulping
• devouring
• guzzling
• imbibing
• munching
• supping
• scoffing
• knocking back
• scarfing
• gobbling (up or down)
• wolfing
• mouthing (down)
• ruminating
• finishing
• gorging
• pecking (at)
• nibbling (on)
• gnawing (at or on)
• putting away
• lapping
• ingurgitating
• polishing off
• bolting
• dispatching

2

as in suppressing

to refrain from openly showing or uttering

swallowed his pride and asked for help

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suppressing
• stifling
• repressing
• strangling
• submerging
• controlling
• smothering
• choking (back)
• containing
• managing
• holding back
• pocketing
• sinking
• governing
• curbing
• checking
• quelling
• quashing
• bridling
• muffling
• squelching
• bottling up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• expressing
• releasing
• taking out
• venting
• unleashing
• loosing

3

as in believing

to regard as right or true

my little niece swallows everything I tell her

Synonyms & Similar Words

• believing
• taking
• accepting
• understanding
• buying
• trusting
• crediting
• accounting
• setting store by
• accrediting
• assuming
• presuming
• deducing
• supposing
• inferring
• concluding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejecting
• discrediting
• disbelieving
• questioning
• doubting
• suspecting
• challenging
• distrusting
• mistrusting
• disputing
• misdoubting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of swallowing

And do your best to avoid swallowing the water. —Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 8 June 2026

Johns founded the university's voice center in 2017 in order to help people experiencing issues with their voices, swallowing or airways and improve their quality of life. —Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026

Patients typically develop difficulty swallowing, weak fingers and wrists, and atrophy of the forearms and thigh muscles. —Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026

For ultimate privacy with all the Les Airelles trimmings, the hotel has brought three impossibly luxe chalets into the fold, each swallowing up to 15 guests for weeks of high-altitude hedonism. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026

Avoid swallowing water or getting it up your nose while swimming to lower your risk of giardia and other waterborne parasites. —Justin Laube, EverydayHealth.com, 1 June 2026

But the lake has steadily expanded, swallowing homes, grazing lands, schools, roads and the burial grounds where Lenkutuk's ancestors were laid to rest. —Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 31 May 2026

Breathing, movement, swallowing — all of it depends on this communication working smoothly. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

The sound reached us before the view did—first, a low physical pressure in my chest, and then the full drop appeared, nearly 750 feet, with clouds moving through the valley below, sometimes swallowing the falls entirely, sometimes pulling back to leave a rainbow hanging in the gorge. —Chantelle Kincy, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2026