| inglese > italiano | |
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| swallow | |
| 1. sost. (ornitologia) rondine | |
| 2. sost. deglutizione | |
| 3. verb. ingoiare, divorare, trangugiare, deglutire | |
| 4. verb. sopportare, soffrire | |
| 5. verb. inghiottire, ingerire, deglutire, assumere per bocca (ad es. Do not swallow!, non ingerire) | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| swallow | |
| 1. v. To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. |  |
| 2. v. To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) 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. | |
| 4. v. To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. | |
| 5. v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up. | |
| 6. v. To retract; to recant. | |
| to swallow one's opinions | |
| 7. v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation. | |
| to swallow an affront or insult | |
| 8. subst. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth. | |
| 9. subst. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing. | |
| He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water. | |
| 10. subst. (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing. | |
| 11. subst. 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. | |
| 12. subst. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| ingoiare | |
| 1. v. to swallow | |
| 2. v. to gulp down (food or beverage) | |
