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swallow up someone/something to take in or absorb someone or something. The suburbs are swallowing up all the farmland and open space in the region. She walked down the street, and the crowd just swallowed her up. See also: swallow How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No, let the earth open and swallow her own dirt (if I had millions of acres I would say it) rather than swallow up my dear glorious friend. My cold berth would swallow up like a chilly burial niche my bodily shivers and my mental excitement. He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc. |
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