| 词组 | swallow |
| 释义 | swallow [swallowed, swallowed, swallowing] swallow down swallow down sth • swallow sth down to make something that is in your mouth go down your throat and towards your stomach: ▪ Christina shook two pills out of the bottle and swallowed them down. ▪ Stewart swallowed down his wine and got up. swallow up 1. swallow up sth • swallow sth up usually passive if a large country, company, or organization swallows up a smaller one, the smaller one becomes part of the larger one: ▪ The tiny island state was swallowed up by Indonesia in 1976. ▪ A lot of the old publishing firms have been swallowed up by huge multinationals. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑take over, ↑absorb 2. swallow up sth • swallow sth up usually passive if something swallows up a large amount of money, it uses all of it, so that the money is not available for other things: ▪ I got a pay rise, but it was swallowed up by the increase in train fares. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑eat up 3. swallow up sb/sth • swallow sb/sth up literary if something such as darkness, a cloud, or a crowd swallows someone or something up, it hides them so that they cannot be seen: ▪ The storm had swallowed up the daylight. Sheets of dense gray rain fell from the sky. ▪ No sooner did the moon spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud. ▪ She watched as Blake walked down the street, until he was swallowed up by the crowd. ■ SIMILAR TO: engulf |
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