To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
To eat very quickly.
An inhalation.
To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
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 engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
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.