swallow

/ˈswɒloʊ/

意味: ツバメ、飲み込み

例文: A swallow nested near Philo.
　　  ツバメがフィロの近くに巣を作った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: swallow food(食べ物を飲み込む), swallow hard(ぐっと飲み込む), swallow pride(プライドを飲み込む)

定義: 口の中のものを喉を通して胃に送る動作。食べ物や飲み物を飲み込むこと。時には感情や言葉を抑える意味でも使われる。

swallowは約100,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a small amount of liquid food
Noun: the act of swallowing
Noun: small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
Verb: pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
Verb: engulf and destroy
Verb: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Verb: utter indistinctly
Verb: take back what one has said
Verb: keep from expressing
Verb: tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Verb: believe or accept without questioning or challenge

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: a sup of ale
Noun: one swallow of the liquid was enough
Noun: he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips
Verb: Swallow the raw fish–it won’t kill you!
Verb: The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries
Verb: The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Verb: She swallowed the last words of her speech
Verb: He swallowed his words
Verb: I swallowed my anger and kept quiet
Verb: I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
Verb: I swallowed the insult
Verb: She has learned to live with her husband’s little idiosyncrasies
Verb: Am I supposed to swallow that story?

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): accept, bury, deglutition, drink, eat up, get down, immerse, live with, sup, swallow, swallow up, take back, unsay, withdraw

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): believe, consume, consumption, demolish, digest, disown, enclose, oscine, suppress, talk, taste

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abjure, accentor, accept, apostatize, australian magpie, babble, babbler, bank, bark, bay, bear up, begin, believe, believe in, bird of paradise, blubber, blue mockingbird, blurt out, bowerbird, bumble, buy, cackle, cannibalize, casket, catbird, chatter, corral, corvine bird, creeper, cut to ribbons, deliver, deny, dike, drink, drinking, drone, drug, eat, eating, embower, encapsulate, encase, enshrine, enthuse, fairy bluebird, feed, fence, finch, fortify, frame, generalize, glass, gulp, hedge, hiss, hit, honey eater, honeycreeper, immerse, lark, lip off, mockingbird, morsel, mumble, murmur, new world oriole, new zealand wren, nuthatch, old world flycatcher, old world oriole, open up, partake, pay, peep, pipit, rant, rasp, read, refute, rope in, sample, satiate, shout, shrike, sing, sit out, slur, smash, smoke, snap, snivel, songbird, speak in tongues, speak up, stand for, starling, sucking, sup, swallow, take a joke, take in, take lying down, talk of, tanager, thrasher, thrush, titmouse, tone, troll, trust, tuck, understand, use, verbalize, vireo, vocalize, wagtail, wall in, warbler, water ouzel, waxwing, weaver, whiff, whisper, wood swallow, yack

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): aerophagia, barn swallow, bolt, cliff swallow, gulp, martin, sip, tree swallow, white-bellied swallow

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: acceptance, drink, sup, swallow, withdrawal

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: literary

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: