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swallow up

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Verb1.swallow up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
eat up, immerse, swallow, bury
inclose, shut in, close in, enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"


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No, let the earth open and swallow her own dirt (if I had millions of acres I would say it) rather than swallow up my dear glorious friend.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
My cold berth would swallow up like a chilly burial niche my bodily shivers and my mental excitement.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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