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Word entry · 7 letters

swallow

Best crossword clue

"Small bird or gulp"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈswɒl.əʊ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted alloswwStarts with SEnds with W1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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