Verb
1. pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking;
"Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"2. engulf and destroy;
"The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing;
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"4. utter indistinctly;
"She swallowed the last words of her speech"5. take back what one has said;
"He swallowed his words"6. keep from expressing;
"I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to;
"I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions""I swallowed the insult""She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies"8. believe or accept without questioning or challenge;
"Am I supposed to swallow that story?"