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
- These personnel outlays will swallow up nearly 60 per cent of this year's budget increase.
- The Lord will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever.
- I really wish there's a dark hole that would swallow up bad people.
- During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
- Public sector workers have been "furloughed" and now Schwarzenegger and the Republicans want to swallow up the public pensions and bust the public employee unions. Joseph A. Palermo: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California
- And while a quarterback can improvise and create, NFL defenses are savvy enough to swallow up all but the most preternaturally gifted field generals.
- It is believed that a black hole can swallow up any objects like stars near it.
- A seven-day TV ad campaign could swallow up the best part of ￡50,000.
- A seven-day TV ad campaign could swallow up the best part of ￡50,000.
- Slowly swallow up all the dreams And love. They did not know what started.
