1. verb /ˈswɒləʊ,ˈswɑ.loʊ/
a) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
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.
Clothes are to be worn and food is to be swallowed: they remain trapped in the physical world.
2. noun /ˈswɒləʊ,ˈswɑ.loʊ/
He took the aspirin with a single swallow of water.
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