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单词 overswallow
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overswallowv.

Forms: see over- prefix and swallow v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, swallow v.
Etymology: < over- prefix + swallow v. Compare earlier forswallow v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To engulf; to swallow down.
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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).
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