The body
Synonyms for swallow
Synonyms for swallow: ingest, accept, drink and sup. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for swallow
Interchangeable with swallow in this sense
Audited under swallow's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one swallow carries in that sense.
- ingestverb, in the sense "to move food or drink from the mouth down the throat into the stomach"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name swallow as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under swallow and three under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
to move food or drink from the mouth down the throat into the stomach
The toddler had to swallow the medicine, though he made a face at the taste.
The true synonym
ingest
Same sentence, swapped: The toddler had to ingest the medicine, though he made a face at the taste.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for swallow in the sentence quoted.
- chew
- digest
- gargle
Where swallow turns up in the game
swallow is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in eight other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 8 puzzles where swallow is the trap
- buryverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is forget, in the sense "dismiss from the mind", so swallow is there to be ruled out.
- acceptverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is consent, in the sense "give an affirmative reply to", so swallow is there to be ruled out.
- ruleverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is harness, in the sense "keep in check", with swallow sitting one tile away.
- savorverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is relish, in the sense "to enjoy a taste or smell slowly and fully", and swallow is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play swallow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so swallow reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because the body is the company swallow keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. swallow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.