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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"
Definition of Swallow up
1. Verb. To completely enclose or envelop ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Swallow Up
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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