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SWALLOW UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does swallow up mean?
• SWALLOW UP (verb)
The verb SWALLOW UP has 1 sense:
1. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Familiarity information: SWALLOW UP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up
Context example:
The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Hypernyms (to "swallow up" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples
These Tilneys seem to swallow up everything else.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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