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swallow someone or something up

1. Lit. to eat or gobble up someone or something. The fairy-tale wolf threatened to swallow the pig up in one bite. The wolf swallowed up the meat in one bite.

2. Fig. to engulf or contain something. The vast garage seemed to swallow the cars up. The huge sweater swallowed up the tiny child.

See also: swallow, up

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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. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context My cold berth would swallow up like a chilly burial niche my bodily shivers and my mental excitement. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context 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. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context			surpass in surprise surprise by surprise with surrender to surround with survival of the fittest susceptible to suspect suspect of suspend suspend by suspend from suspicion suss out sustain in swab swab down swab out swab out of swallow swallow down swallow hook, line, and sinker swallow pride swallow the bait swallow up swamp with swan swan song swap swap for swap notes swap with swarm swarm around swarm in swarm out of swarm over swarm through swarm with swath swathe swathe in swathe with sway sway back and forth sway from side to side sway to swear swear at swear blind			Swallow (bird) swallow apnea swallow buoy swallow dive swallow dive swallow dives swallow dives swallow down swallow down Swallow Falls State Park swallow float swallow hole swallow hole swallow holes swallow holes swallow hook, line, and sinker swallow one's teeth Swallow plover swallow pride swallow shrike Swallow Sidecars Ltd swallow syncope swallow syncope swallow syncope swallow tail swallow tail swallow tail swallow tail Swallow Tailed Moth swallow the bait swallow up Swallow warbler swallow wort Swallow Your Pride swallow-dive swallow-dive swallow-dived swallow-dived swallow-dives swallow-dives swallow-diving swallow-diving swallow-tailed swallow-tailed swallow-tailed coat Swallow-tailed duck Swallow-tailed Gull Swallow-tailed gulls swallow-tailed hawk swallow-tailed kite Swallow-tailed Moth Swallow-wort Swallow-wort swallowable swallowable swallowable swallowable swallowed swallowed swallowed swallowed

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