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Traditional English :: swallowable
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swallowable - v. & n. --v. 1 tr. cause or allow (food etc.) to pass down the throat.
2 intr. perform the muscular movement of the oesophagus required to do this.
3 tr. a accept meekly; put up with (an affront etc.). b accept credulously (an unlikely assertion etc.).
4 tr. repress; resist the expression of (a feeling etc.) (swallow one's pride).
5 tr. articulate (words etc.) indistinctly.
6 tr. (often foll. by up) engulf or absorb; exhaust; cause to disappear. --n. 1 the act of swallowing.
2 an amount swallowed in one action. swallow-hole Brit. = sink-hole (see SINK n. 6). swallowable adj. swallower n. [OE swelg (n.), swelgan (v.) f. Gmc] |
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