Definitions
believe or accept without questioning or challenge
Word origin
From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā, from Proto-Germanic *swalwǭ. Cognate with Norwegian and Danish svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Small bird or gulp”7 letters
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