Synonyms of the word

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.

abide

• v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
• v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
• v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
• v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
• v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
• v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
• v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
• v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.

accept

• v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
• v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
• v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
• v. (transitive) To receive officially.
• v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
• adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

bear

• n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
• n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
• n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
• n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
• n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
• n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
• n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
• adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
• v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• v. (transitive) To carry something.
• v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
• v. (transitive) To wear or display.
• v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
• v. (transitive) To put up with something.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
• v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
• v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
• v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
• v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
• v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
• v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
• v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
• v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
• n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
• n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

believe

• v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
• v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
• v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

brook

• v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
• v. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract…
• n. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
• n. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
• n. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

bury

• v. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
• v. (transitive) To place in the ground.
• v. (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
• n. (obsolete) A burrow.
• n. A borough; a manor.

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

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.

deglutition

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

demolish

• v. To destroy; to destruct.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To utterly defeat (as in a theory, belief or opponent).

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

digest

• v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
• v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
• v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
• v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
• v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
• n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
• n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
• n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
• n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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.

enclose

• v. (transitive) To surround with a wall, fence, etc.
• v. (transitive) To insert into a container, usually an envelope or package.
• v. (intransitive) To hold or contain.

endure

• v. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
• v. (intransitive) To last.
• v. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under…
• v. (transitive) To suffer patiently.
• v. (obsolete) To indurate.

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

immerse

• v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
• v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
• v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
• adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

inclose

• v. (now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose.

ingest

• v. To take into the body, as for digestion.

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).

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

mouthful

• n. The amount that will fit in a mouth.
• n. (slang) Quite a bit.
• n. Something difficult to pronounce or say.
• n. A tirade of abusive language (especially in the term "give someone a mouthful").

oscine

• adj. Of or pertaining to the songbirds (suborder Passeri).
• n. Any bird of the suborder Passeri (the songbirds), which have better vocal control than other birds.

renounce

• n. (card games) An act of renouncing.
• v. (transitive) To give up, resign, surrender, atsake.
• v. (transitive) To cast off, repudiate.
• v. (transitive) To decline further association with someone or something, disown.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, forsake, discontinue (an action, habit, intention, etc), sometimes by open declaration.
• v. (intransitive) To make a renunciation of something.
• v. (intransitive) To surrender formally some right or trust.
• v. (intransitive, card games) To fail to follow suit; playing a card of a different suit when having no card…

repress

• v. To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
• v. Hence, to check; to keep back.
• v. To press again.
• n. A record pressed again; a repressing.

repudiate

• v. To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
• v. To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
• v. To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
• v. (intransitive) To be repudiated.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

stand

• v. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
• v. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified…
• v. (intransitive) To remain without ruin or injury.
• v. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
• n. The act of standing.
• n. A defensive position or effort.
• n. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
• n. A period of performance in a given location or venue.
• n. A device to hold something upright or aloft.
• n. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
• n. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
• n. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and…
• n. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
• n. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
• n. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
• n. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.
• n. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural).
• n. (cricket) A partnership.
• n. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
• n. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.
• n. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.
• n. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own…
• n. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

stomach

• n. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
• n. (informal) The belly.
• n. (obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
• n. (obsolete) Appetite.
• n. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
• v. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

sup

• v. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
• n. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
• v. To take supper.
• interj. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

suppress

• v. To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
• v. To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
• v. (psychiatry) To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
• v. To prevent publication.
• v. To stop a flow or stream.
• v. (US, law) To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
• v. (electronics) To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
• v. (obsolete) To hold in place, to keep low.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

tolerate

• v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

unsay

• v. To withdraw, retract (something said).
• v. To not have said (since this is physically impossible usually in the subjunctive, as I wish I could unsay).

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.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.