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Swallow is a synonym of engross.


In lang=en terms the difference between swallow and engross

is that swallow is to accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept while engross is to completely engage the attention of.

As verbs the difference between swallow and engross

is that swallow is to cause (food, drink etc) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat while engross is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

As a noun swallow

is (archaic) a deep chasm or abyss in the earth or swallow can be a small, migratory bird of the hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

swallow

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) swolowen, swolwen, . See also (l). The noun is from late (etyl) , from the verb.

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:
    • What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.
  • * 2011 , Jonathan Jones, The Guardian , 21 Apr 2011:
    • Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed : they remain trapped in the physical world.
  • To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
  • * John Locke
    • The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
  • * 2010 , "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist , 28 Oct 2010:
    • His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
  • To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
    • My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow .
  • * 1979 , VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic :
    • She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
  • To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Though that story be not so readily swallowed .
  • * 2011 , Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian , 22 Apr 2011:
    • Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
  • To engross; to appropriate; usually with up .
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Homer excels in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
  • To retract; to recant.
    • to swallow one's opinions
  • * Shakespeare
    • swallowed his vows whole
  • To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
    • to swallow an affront or insult
    Derived terms
    * bitter pill to swallow * swallowable * swallow one's pride * swallow up

    See also

    * dysphagia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
  • The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
    • He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia swallow) (etyl) swealwe, from Germanic. Cognate with Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
  • (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
    • Synonyms
    * (small bird of Hirundunudae) martlet * barn swallow (official British name)
    Derived terms
    * one swallow does not make a summer * swallow-tailed

    Anagrams

    * wallows

    engross

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
  • * De Quincey
    • laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
  • (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
  • To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
    • After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
    • Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
  • To completely engage the attention of.
    • She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
  • (obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
  • To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
  • * Spenser
    • waves engrossed with mud
  • * Shakespeare
    • not sleeping, to engross his idle body
  • (obsolete) To amass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

    Synonyms

    * (to buy up the whole supply of) corner the market

    Related terms

    * gross

    Coordinate terms

    * (to write out in large characters) longhand

    References

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