单词 | overswallow |
释义 | † overswallowv. Obsolete. transitive. To engulf; to swallow down. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (transitive)] > swallow swallowc1000 overswallowa1400 engluta1492 slup1598 deglute1599 to take down1603 glut-glut1650 quilta1658 to get down1662 regurgitate1670 reswallow1792 to take on board1813 glutch1825 down1852 deglutate1867 a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxviii. 19 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 200 (MED) Noght þai sinke me amange Storme of watres stith and strange Ne oureswelyhe [v.rr. forswolyhe, forssvoyhe; L. absorbeat] me depenes þat is Ne schouue ouer me þe pit mouth his. a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Studia Neophilol. (1944) 16 14 Kut it in gobettes, and departe it as the hawke may ouerswoloue it. 1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie (1849) iv. 528 The world's a sea that ebbs and flowes..A bait that overswallowed men choakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.a1400 |
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