Definition of "swallow" []

• To cause (food or drink, for example) to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach. (verb-transitive)
• To put up with (something unpleasant): swallowed the insults and kept on working. (verb-transitive)
• To refrain from expressing; suppress: swallow one's feelings. (verb-transitive)
• To consume or destroy as if by ingestion; devour: a building that was swallowed up by fire. (verb-transitive)
• Slang To believe without question: swallowed the alibi. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The silver lining of the spring made its words much easier to catch when it said anything -- for I should tell you that for the most part now it did not speak, or not in any language that I could understand, but rather sang -- and it now said, "_Swallow swallow, drink, swallow_.""
• "Mind you the title swallow diluted the fun of the ad-Breakfast would have done."
• "The approach here being that the biggest pill we have to swallow is the concept itself – a town plagued with zombie-like lunatics."