Swallow vs Repress - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between swallow and repress

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 repress is to press again.

As nouns the difference between swallow and repress

is that 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 while repress is the act of repressing.

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

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

repress

English

Noun

(es)

The act of repressing.

Verb

(es)

To press again.

to repress a vinyl record

To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.

*to repress sedition or rebellion

*to repress the first risings of discontent.

Hence, to check; to keep back.

* Milton

Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, / Thou couldst repress .

Synonyms

* (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress * (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back