To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one’s opinions.

To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb –
usually followed by up.

To occupy; to take up; to employ.

To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without
examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

To take into the stomach; to receive through the
gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the
true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney
swallow, or swift.

i. kırlangıç; yudum. It looks like a swallow. (Kırlangıca benziyor.)

The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

To engross; to appropriate; – usually with up.