demur vs swallow

demur

verb
  • To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair. 

  • To interpose a demurrer. 

  • To scruple or object; to take exception; to oppose; to balk 

noun
  • An act of hesitation as to proceeding; a scruple; also, a suspension of action or decision; a pause, a stop. 

swallow

verb
  • To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation. 

  • To retract; to recant. 

  • To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. 

  • To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. 

  • To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. 

  • To engross; to appropriate; usually with up. 

  • To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. 

noun
  • Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing. 

  • The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing. 

  • A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects. 

  • The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes. 

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