<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances;</li><li>To take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb;</li><li>To accept without question or suspicion; believe; trust;</li><li>To accept without opposition; put up with;</li><li>To suppress (emotion, a laugh, a sob, etc.) as if by drawing it down one's throat;</li><li>To take back; retract;</li><li>To enunciate poorly; mutter.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To perform the act of swallowing.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The act or an instance of swallowing;</li><li>A quantity swallowed at one time; a mouthful;</li><li>Capacity for swallowing;</li><li>Nautical, Machinery: the space in a block, between the groove of the sheave and the shell, through which the rope runs.</li></ul>