Swallow vs Forestall - What's the difference?
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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:
* 2011 , Jonathan Jones, The Guardian , 21 Apr 2011:
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
* John Locke
* 2010 , "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist , 28 Oct 2010:
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.
* 1979 , VC Andrews, Flowers in the Attic :
To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 2011 , Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian , 22 Apr 2011:
To engross; to appropriate; usually with up .
* Alexander Pope
To retract; to recant.
* Shakespeare
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
(archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
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.
(obsolete, or, historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
Something situated or placed in front.
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
(archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
* Milton
* 1919 ,
To deprive (with of ).
* Shakespeare
To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
Swallow is a related term of forestall.
As verbs the difference between swallow and forestall
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 forestall is .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)- 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.
- Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed : they remain trapped in the physical world.
- The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.
- His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.
- My throat was so sore that I was unable to swallow .
- She swallowed nervously then, appearing near sick with what she had to say.
- Though that story be not so readily swallowed .
- Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.
- Homer excels in this, that he swallowed up the honour of those who succeeded him.
- to swallow one's opinions
- swallowed his vows whole
- to swallow an affront or insult
Derived terms
* bitter pill to swallow * swallowable * swallow one's pride * swallow upSee also
* dysphagiaNoun
(en noun)- 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)Synonyms
* (small bird of Hirundunudae) martlet * barn swallow (official British name)Derived terms
* one swallow does not make a summer * swallow-tailedAnagrams
* wallowsforestall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forstal, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
- She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.
- All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!