Swal‑low

Definition

swallow 1 /'swɒlǝƱ/ v ၁။ (က) မ်ဳိခ်သည္။ Taking pills is easy — just put them in your mouth and swallow. ❍ Chew your food properly before swallowing it. (ခ) (တံေတြး) မ်ဳိသည္။ She swallowed hard, and turned to face her accuser. ၂။ ( infml ) (က) ယံုလြယ္သည္။ He flatters her outrageously, and she swallows it whole (ie believes all of it). (ခ) ခံသည္။ ငံု႔ခံသည္။ He swallowed all the criticism without saying a thing. ၃။ ~ sb/ sth (up) (က) မ်ဳိသည္။ 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) မ်ဳိသည္။ The cost of the trial swallowed up all their savings. ၄။ မ်ဳိသိပ္ထားသည္။ She swallowed her anger and carried on. ❍ I was forced to swallow my pride and ask for a loan. n (က) မ်ဳိခ်ျခင္း။ (ခ) တစ္က်ဳိက္။ တစ္မ်ဳိ။ တစ္ငံု။ take a swallow of beer. ❏ swallow the bait [ IDM ] တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္ခံရသည္။ အလိမ္ မိသည္။ swallow 2 /'swɒlǝƱ/ n ပ်ံလႊားငွက္။ ❏ one swallow does not make a summer [ IDM ] ( saying ) ႏွမ္းတစ္လံုးႏွင့္ဆီမျဖစ္။

Examples

1. She quickly swallowed the rest of her coffee.
2. I had a sore throat and it hurt to swallow.
3. Tim swallowed nervously before replying.
4. I found the film’s ending a bit hard to swallow.