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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

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?st, IPA^(key): /we?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: waist

Etymology 1

From Middle English waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *w?st? (“a waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“empty, wasted”).

Noun

waste (countable and uncountable, plural wastes)

1. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. Excrement or urine.

   The cage was littered with animal waste

3. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
6. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
7. A vast expanse of water.
8. A disused mine or part of one.
9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

   That was a waste of time

   Her life seemed a waste

10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
11. Gradual loss or decay.
12. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
13. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
14. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
15. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *w?st? (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?sto- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), Old Saxon w?sti (“desolate”), Old English w?ste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).

Adjective

waste (comparative more waste, superlative most waste)

1. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
2. Barren; desert.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 255:

     For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste.

3. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
4. Superfluous; needless.
5. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
6. Unfortunate; disappointing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Usage notes

Same meanings as wasted.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word); the Anglo-Norman form waster was either from Frankish *w?stijan (“to waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?sto- (“empty, wasted”), or alternatively from Latin vast?re, present active infinitive of vast? and influenced by the Frankish; the English word was assisted by similarity to native Middle English westen ("to waste"; > English weest). Cognate with Old High German wuostan, wuastan, wuostjan (“to waste”) (Modern German wüsten), Old English w?stan (“to lay waste, ravage”).

Verb

waste (third-person singular simple present wastes, present participle wasting, simple past and past participle wasted)

1. (transitive) to devastate, destroy

   • Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.

   • The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.

2. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

   • 1909, Francis Galton, Memories of my life, page 69

     E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation. .

3. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
4. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

   • until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness

   • 1769, William Robertson, History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V

     Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.

5. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
6. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

   • The barrel of meal shall not waste.

7. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (slang, to kill or murder): cack, top, duppy (see also Thesaurus:kill)

Translations

See also

• Waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Sweat, Weast, swate, sweat, tawse, wetas

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s.t?/

Verb

waste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of wassen

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Etymology

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Noun

waste ?

1. refuge, sanctuary

West Flemish

Noun

waste f

1. laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed.