Synonyms of the word

deglutition

• n. (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

consumption

• n. The act of consuming, i.e., burning something.
• n. The act of eating, drinking or using.
• n. The amount consumed.
• n. (pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
• n. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.

drink

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
• v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
• v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
• n. A beverage.
• n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
• n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
• n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
• n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
• n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

ingestion

• n. The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other…

intake

• n. The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
• n. The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
• n. The quantity taken in.
• n. An act or instance of taking in.
• n. The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
• v. To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).

swallow

• v. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach…
• v. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
• v. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus…
• v. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
• v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
• v. To retract; to recant.
• v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
• n. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
• n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
• n. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked…
• n. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

uptake

• n. understanding, comprehension.
• n. absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
• n. (dated) a chimney.
• v. (archaic) To take up, to lift.