swallow up
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To completely enclose or envelop.
verb
To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
verb
To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
Example Sentences
- "Actually the job was almost the despair of those early pioneers, for the surface was a "quaking morass," the surrounding district was undrained, and no sooner than soil was deposited than it was swallowed up, with no apparent effect, for the sponginess of the land remained unaltered."
- "(Thus Engels expected Austria-Hungary to swallow up the small Balkan countries; Poland, as a historical nation, should, he thought, be restored and include in its dominion the less developed peoples to the east-Lithuanians, White Russians, and Ukrainians.)"
- "Yes, there were hundreds of companies in existence, but a form of natural selection was taking place. Weaker companies were swallowed up by larger ones."