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SWALLOWING
- Cause or allow (something, esp. food or drink) to pass down the throat
- Perform the muscular movement of the esophagus required to do this, esp. through fear or nervousness
- Put up with or meekly accept (something insulting or unwelcome)
- Resist expressing (a feeling) or uttering (words)
- SWALLOW, to take into the stomach through the mouth and gullet [v]
- Believe unquestioningly (a lie or unlikely assertion)
- SWALLOW, to take through the mouth and esophagus into the stomach [v]
- Take in and cause to disappear; engulf
- Completely use up (money or resources)