Clues for the word "SWALLOW"
We've had 49 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 64 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 26, 2025.
Definition of swallow
- n. - Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
- n. - Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
- n. - The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
- v. t. - To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
- v. t. - To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
- v. t. - To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
- v. t. - To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
- v. t. - To occupy; to take up; to employ.
- v. t. - To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
- v. t. - To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
- v. t. - To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
- v. i. - To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
- n. - The act of swallowing.
- n. - The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
- n. - Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
- n. - Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
- n. - As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
- n. - That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
Referring Clues
- Accept, but maybe unhappily
- Get down
- Graceful bird
- Barn Bird
- Accept, in a way
- Capistrano bird
- Migratory bird
- Capistrano flier
- *Get down
- Capistrano visitor
- Spit alternative
- One of the birds that "come back to Capistrano," in song
- Gulp down
- Finish a Big Gulp
- Get food down
- Believe a bird
- Take the bait?
- Engulf - migratory bird
- Gulp
- Fork-tailed bird
- Ingest - bird
- Consume - bird!
- Down from a bird
- Bird - drink
- Try to keep cool behind back of Chris Martin
- Bird - gulp down
- Martin is reluctant to accept regressive legislation
- Believe credulously in bird
- Eat or drink
- Believe gullibly - bird
- Eat - bird - believe
- Take in regulations set up at base
- Believe in a bird
- Long-winged, fork-trailed bird
- Believe it's stupid to accept law being overturned
- Pig's Snout within - put within
- Get down what may be up
- Believe you'll get the bird
- What will it do if it catches a fly?
- Worm initially grabbed by unhealthy-looking bird
- Cousin of a lark
- Bird
- SEE HEADER
- The name of Arthur Ransome's dinghy, which he used in his series of children's books
- Believe it gets rid of flies
- Believe to be a regular visitor to our shores
- Drink
- A flighty bird, we believe
- Ingest
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 11, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 13, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 21, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 04, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 13, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - April 19, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 13, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 11, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 27, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - March 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 24, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 28, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - September 14, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 11, 2022
- Your Life Choices - January 28, 2018
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - October 11, 2017
- And in 34 more crossword puzzles...