Definition of Swallow up

1. Verb. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

Exact synonyms: Bury, Eat Up, Immerse, Swallow
Generic synonyms: Close In, Enclose, Inclose, Shut In

Definition of Swallow up

1. Verb. To completely enclose or envelop ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallow Up

swaliest
swaling
swalings
swallet
swallets
swallie
swallow
swallow-tailed
swallow-tailed coat
swallow-tailed hawk
swallow-tailed kite
swallow dive
swallow hole
swallow one's pride
swallow shrike
swallow up (current term)
swallow wort
swallowable
swallowe
swallowed
swallowers
swallowest
swalloweth
swallowfish
swallowing
swallows
swallowtail
swallowtails
swallowwort

Literary usage of Swallow up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"... unexpected power was now growing up against them ; a power which was one day about to swallow up the liberties of Greece, and give laws to all mankind. ..."

2. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"... unexpected power was now growing up against them ; a power which was one day about to swallow up the liberties of Greece, and give laws to all mankind. ..."

3. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"Her unwillingness therefore to see France swallow up the Low Countries was no mere vague jealousy of French aggrandisement, but was a necessary part of her ..."

4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"Her unwillingness therefore to see France swallow up the Low Countries was no mere vague jealousy of French aggrandisement, but was a necessary part of her ..."

5. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"The one absorbing idea of the majesty of the Godhead almost seemed to swallow up all other considerations. The transcendent nature of the Triune Deity, ..."

6. A Series of Lecture Sermons: Delivered at the Second Universalist Meeting by Hosea Ballou (1854)
"And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations He will swallow up death in ..."

7. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"1:17(2:1 ).a great fish to swallow up Jonah. KAL Future. ... Ps. 35:25. We have swallowed him up. Isa. Sl'î.destroy the way of thy paths, (marg. swallow up) ..."

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