Swallow Up

Definition: Swallow Up

Swallow Up

Verb

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

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Synonyms: Swallow Up

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Use

Use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.

Waste

Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse.

Crosswords: Swallow Up

The sand can swallow up cities and countries, if it wants to. (Suna no onna; writing credit: K�b� Abe)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

The number of franchised dealerships in the U.K. is falling as the bigger main dealers (encouraged by their suppliers) swallow up smaller outlets with good sites. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

përpij (drink in, eat up, guzzle, lick, suck in), llup (gobble, gormandize), kapërdij (wash), gllabëroj (engorge, engulf, Raven), gëlltit (absorb, consume, engorge, engross, engulf, ingest, ingulf, ingurgitate, Raven, soak up, sup, swallow). (various references)

Chinese 

併吞 (annex, merge). (various references)

Czech

spolknout (digest, force back, gulp, stomach, swallow), pohltit (absorb, close in on smb., devour, eat up, engorge, engulf, gobble, ingulf). (various references)

Dutch

inslikken (engulf, swallow), innemen (engulf), binnenkrijgen, binnenkrýgen (engulf). (various references)

Esperanto

engluti (engulf). (various references)

Finnish

nielaista (absorb, devour, gulp down, swallow). (various references)

German

verschlingen (consume, devour, eat up, engulf, entwine, gobble, interlace, intertwine, interweave, to devour, to engulf, to gulp). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'מוא (gulp, sip), ל�'מא (sip). (various references)

Hungarian

elnyel (absorb, adsorb, engulf, ingulf, suck, suck in, to absorb, to assimilate, to devour, to engulf, to mop up, to occlude, to suck, to swallow, to swallow up, whelm). (various references)

Italian

inghiottire (gulp, loops, suck down, swallow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巻込む (to drag into, to enfold, to involve, to roll up, to swallow up), 巻き込む (to drag into, to enfold, to involve, to roll up, to swallow up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まき�"む (to drag into, to enfold, to involve, to roll up, to swallow up). (various references)

Manx

sluggey sheese (drink off, gobble, polish off, quaff, wolf). (various references)

Pig Latin

allowsway upay

Portuguese

sorver (absorb, aspirate, engulf, sip). (various references)

Russian 

засосать (suck in). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

progutati (engulf, gulp, ingulf, suck in, swallow). (various references)

Spanish

tragar (engulf, get down, pouch, stomach, suck down, swallow, swallow down), tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, pick up, receive, reduce, strike, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand). (various references)

Swedish

uppsluka (absorb, devour, engorge, engulf, gulf). (various references)

Turkish

tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), içine çekmek (engulf, imbibe, inhale, inspire, sop up, suck, suck in, suck up, swallow), harcamak (consume, dally away, employ, exert, expend, lay out, put forth, put out, spend, spin out, use up, waste), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up). (various references)

consumam, consumant, consumantur, consumas, consumat, consumatur, consume, consumendus, consumens, consumentur, consumere, consumerem, consumerentur, consumeretur, consumeris, consumet, consumetur, consumi, consumit, consumitur, consumpserat, consumpseris, consumpserunt, consumpsi, consumpsimus, consumpsit, consumpta, consumptae, consumptaque, consumptas, consumpti, consumptis, consumptisque, consumptum, consumptura, consumptus, consumptusque, voro. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: swallow, wallops, wallows.

-3 letters: allows, sallow, wallop, wallow.

-4 letters: allow, awols, loups, ollas, opals, palls, pawls, plows, polls, pulls, salol, spall, walls, wauls, wawls.

-5 letters: alls, alow, alps, also, awls, awol, laps, laws, lops, loup, lows, olla, opal, opus, owls, pall, pals, pawl, paws, plow, plus, poll, pols, pows, pula, pull, puls, sall, salp.