swallow

swallow¹ /'swɒlǝƱ/ v

၁။ (က) မျိုချသည်။ Taking pills is easy — just put them in your mouth and swallow. ❍ Chew your food properly before swallowing it.
(ခ) (တံတွေး) မျိုသည်။ She swallowed hard, and turned to face her accuser.
၂။ (infml ) (က) ယုံလွယ်သည်။ He flatters her outrageously, and she swallows it whole (ie believes all of it). (ခ) ခံသည်။ ငုံ့ခံသည်။ He swallowed all the criticism without saying a thing.
၃။ ~ sb/ sth (up) (က) မျိုသည်။ The jungle soon swallowed them up. ❍ The aircraft was swallowed (up) in the clouds. ❍ (fig ) Many small firms are being swallowed up by large corporations (ie taken over so that they disappear). (ခ) မျိုသည်။ The cost of the trial swallowed up all their savings.
၄။ မျိုသိပ်ထားသည်။ She swallowed her anger and carried on. ❍ I was forced to swallow my pride and ask for a loan.
n (က) မျိုချခြင်း။ (ခ) တစ်ကျိုက်။ တစ်မျို။ တစ်ငုံ။ take a swallow of beer.
❏ swallow the bait [IDM ] တစ်ပတ်ရိုက်ခံရသည်။ အလိမ် မိသည်။

swallow² /'swɒlǝƱ/ n

ပျံလွှားငှက်။
❏ one swallow does not make a summer [IDM ] (saying ) နှမ်းတစ်လုံးနှင့်ဆီမဖြစ်။