VERB
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enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
How To Use swallow up In A Sentence
- I really wish there's a dark hole that would swallow up bad people.
- Booze, cigs and fuel duty and council tax also swallow up big chunks. The Sun
- The idea is not that one party should swallow up the other.
- I really wish there's a dark hole that would swallow up bad people.
- Sleepy days in leafy suburbs are disturbed by huge removal lorries that swallow up entire households as transient diplomats, businessmen and journalists leave for postings new.
- During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
- Black holes are giant, cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow up everything around them.
- Fields covered in snow would swallow up whitewashed farmhouses were it not for their black window frames.
- The process was not unlike that whereby, today, a large corporation might swallow up its smaller competitors.
- When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress.
