different between swallow vs spend

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (bird of Hirundinidae): martin

Derived terms

Related terms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• wallows

English

Etymology

From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds ?spendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spend?n (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spent?n (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money).
2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

   • I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

3. (dated) To squander.

4. To exhaust, to wear out.

   • their bodies spent with long labour and thirst

5. To consume, to use up (time).
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26:

     Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
6. (dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

7. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
8. To be diffused; to spread.
9. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)

1. Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

   I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

2. (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
3. Discharged semen.
4. Vaginal discharge.

Translations

Anagrams

• pends