different between swallow vs dissipate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw?lo?/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English swolowen, swolwen, swol?en, swelwen, swel?en, from Old English swelgan (“to swallow, incorporate, absorb, imbibe, devour”), from Proto-Germanic *swelgan? (“to swallow, revel, devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *swelk- (“to gulp”). Cognate with Dutch zwelgen (“to revel, carouse, guzzle”), German schwelgen (“to delight, indulge”), Swedish svälja (“to swallow, gulp”), Icelandic svelgja (“to swallow”), Old English swillan, swilian (“to swill, wash out, gargle”). See also swill.

The noun is from late Old English swelg (“gulf, chasm”), from the verb.

Alternative forms

• swalow, swolow (obsolete)

Verb

swallow (third-person singular simple present swallows, present participle swallowing, simple past and past participle swallowed)

1. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat. [from 11th c.]
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4:

     What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

   • 2011, Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 21 Apr 2011:

     Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.

2. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb. [from 13th c.]

   • The necessary provision of the life swallows the greatest part of their time.

   • 2010, "What are the wild waves saying", The Economist, 28 Oct 2010:

     His body, like so many others swallowed by the ocean’s hungry maw, was never found.

3. (intransitive) 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. [from 18th c.]
4. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept. [from 16th c.]
   • 1920, Katherine Miller (translating Romain Rolland), Clerambault

     this humbug was readily swallowed by men who were supposed to be intelligent,

   • 2011, Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, 22 Apr 2011:

     Americans swallowed his tale because they wanted to.

5. (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
6. (transitive) To retract; to recant.
7. (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.

Synonyms

• (to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach): consume, devour, eat, gulp
• (to take in): absorb, assimilate, engulf, incorporate, swallow up, overwhelm; see also Thesaurus:integrate
• (to make muscular contractions of the oesophagus): gulp
• (to believe or accept): buy, creed, credit
• (to engross): absorb, engage, immerse,monopolize, take over, occupy
• (to retract): disavow, take back, unsay; See also Thesaurus:recant
• (to put up with): brook, endure, live with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

swallow (countable and uncountable, plural swallows)

1. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
2. (archaic) The mouth and throat; that which is used for swallowing; the gullet.
3. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
4. (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.

Translations

See also

• dysphagia

Etymology 2

From Middle English swalwe, swalewe, swalowe, from Old English swealwe, from Proto-Germanic *swalw?. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian svale, Dutch zwaluw, German Schwalbe, Swedish svala.

Noun

swallow (plural swallows)

2. 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.
3. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

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Synonyms

• (bird of Hirundinidae): martin

Derived terms

Related terms

• (bird of Hirundinidae): martlet (type of feetless bird in heraldry)

Translations

Anagrams

• wallows

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissipatus, past participle of dissipare, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supare (“to throw”), also in comp. insipare (“to throw into”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?pe?t/

Verb

dissipate (third-person singular simple present dissipates, present participle dissipating, simple past and past participle dissipated)

1. (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
   • August 1773, James Cook, journal entry

     I soon dissipated his fears.

   • 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table

     The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.

2. (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     The vast wealth […] was in three years dissipated.

   • 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited

     So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate"—to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
3. (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
4. (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
5. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To be dissolute in conduct.

Related terms

• dissipation

Translations

Further reading

• dissipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dissipate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “dissipate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Italian

Verb

dissipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dissipare
2. second-person plural imperative of dissipare
3. feminine plural of dissipato

Latin

Verb

dissip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dissip?