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Swallowed Swallow Make Movement Throat Nervous Frightened Swallowing

query
If you swallow, you make a movement in your throat as if you are s_________ something, often because you are nervous or frightened .If you swallow, you make a movement in your throat as if you are swallowing something, often because you are nervous or frightened .
Nancy swallowed hard and shook her head.
word swallow
full-definition
verb
If you swallow something, you cause it to go from your mouth down into your stomach.
You are asked to swallow a capsule containing vitamin B.
Polly took a bite of the apple, chewed and swallowed.
Jan lifted her glass and took a quick swallow.
If you swallow, you make a movement in your throat as if you are swallowing something, often because you are nervous or frightened .
Nancy swallowed hard and shook her head.
If someone swallows a story or a statement, they believe it completely.
It was vital that he swallowed the story about Juanita being in that motel room that night.
I too found this story a little hard to swallow.
If you swallow your feelings, you do not express them, although you want to very much.
Gordon has swallowed the anger he felt.
He flashed me a quick grin but rapidly swallowed it when he saw my expression.
noun
A swallow is a kind of small bird with pointed wings and a forked tail.
inflections swallowsswallowingswallowed
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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