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swallow

verb as in believe without much thought

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For swallows and other birds that nest in holes and hollows, competition for nests can “be really ferocious,” Wiebe says.

The swallow reflex probably activates the muscle that pulls the plug up to the top of its throat, blocking the upper airways and letting prey slide into its digestive tract.

She hopes to figure out which birds are risky so that US farms can be more sustainable and safe for a kid snacking on an apple and the swallows swooping through the sky.

This is a tedious process without a pot, but you can melt a few swallows at a time in a piece of tinfoil, a can or bottle discarded by a sloppy hiker.

What was uncontestable — especially during a moment when most things felt like a tough swallow — was that it was a movement that seemed to go down remarkably easily.

For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.

Even more difficult to swallow: Perry likes to put his name in front of a lot of his projects.

It's a hard pill to swallow not because the show isn't good.

Jordan is in an even more delicate position, and a country that ISIS would dearly like to swallow.

Hunger had to be satisfied, however, and I had to swallow my pride and my five-pennyworth.

In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.

The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.

Here was something for the "babes and sucklings" of the craft of violin making to swallow.

I doa'nt swallow that story o' her'n. Depend upon it, man, it be a big lie fro' beginning to end.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to swallow, such as: absorb, devour, drink, eat, gobble, and gulp.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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