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Swallows
- noun - a small amount of liquid food; "a sup of ale"
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
- keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
- the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her hu
Swell Up
- verb - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
Swelldom
- - People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
Swelling
- verb - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
- cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
- come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
- expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
- the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often acco
Swelters
- verb - be uncomfortably hot
- suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach"
Swilling
- verb - drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
- feed pigs
- the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly
Syllabic
- adjective - (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable; "the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'"
- (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
- consisting of a syllable or syllables
- consisting of or using a syllabary; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"
- of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"
Syllable
- noun - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
Syllabub
- noun - spiced hot milk with rum or wine
- sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor