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say it: SWAH-loh
swallow is a verb and noun meaning "pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking". It is pronounced /ˈswɑloʊ/ — SWAH-loh. It carries 11 recorded senses.
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
“The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”
believe or accept without questioning or challenge
“Am I supposed to swallow that story?”
the act of swallowing
“one swallow of the liquid was enough”
“he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips”
small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swallow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.