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From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
swallow up
v : enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The
huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly
thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, bury, eat up]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
swallow up
vb.
1 To completely enclose or envelop.
2 To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it
no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
3 To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
swallow up
vb.
1 To completely enclose or envelop.
2 To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it
no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
3 To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
swallow up
vb.
1 To completely enclose or envelop.
2 To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it
no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
3 To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
swallow up
vb.
1 To completely enclose or envelop.
2 To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it
no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
3 To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
swallow up /swˈɒləʊ ˈʌp/
pohltit
From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]
swallow up /swɔlouʌp/
binnenkrijgen, innemen, inslikken
From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-por ]
swallow up /swɔlouʌp/
sorver
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "swallow up":
ablate, absorb, assimilate, bleed white, bring to ruin, burn up,
condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate,
deplete, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour,
digest, dissolve, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat up, engorge,
erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, gobble, gobble up, gut,
gut with fire, havoc, impoverish, incinerate, ingest, lay in ruins,
lay waste, ravage, ruin, ruinate, shipwreck, spend, squander,
suck dry, swallow, throw into disorder, unleash destruction,
unleash the hurricane, upheave, use up, vandalize, vaporize, waste,
waste away, wear away, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
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