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verb | noun gulpgulp1 /gʌlp/ verb ETYMOLOGYgulp1Origin: 1400-1500 Probably from Middle Dutch gulpen to swallow VERB TABLEgulp |
Present | I, you, we, they | gulp | | he, she, it | gulps | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | gulped | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have gulped | | he, she, it | has gulped | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had gulped | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will gulp | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have gulped |
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Present | I | am gulping | | he, she, it | is gulping | | you, we, they | are gulping | Past | I, he, she, it | was gulping | | you, we, they | were gulping | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been gulping | | he, she, it | has been gulping | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been gulping | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be gulping | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been gulping |
THESAURUS to pour a liquid into your mouth and swallow it► drink to pour a liquid into your mouth and swallow it: What do you want to drink? Charlie drinks too much coffee. ► sip to drink something in very small amounts: The coffee was hot, and she sipped it carefully. ► take a sip to drink a small amount of a liquid: Take a sip of this and tell me how it tastes. ► slurp to drink something in a noisy way: Stop slurping your soup. ► gulp (down) to drink all of something very quickly: Ed gulped down the water and asked for another glass. ► imbibe formal to drink something, especially alcohol or something else that affects your body. Used especially in literature or scientific writing: Levels of the hormone go up in women two hours after imbibing alcohol. ► lap (up) if an animal laps a drink, it drinks by touching the liquid with its tongue: The cat quickly lapped up all the milk in the bowl. 1[transitive] (also gulp something ↔ down) to swallow something quickly: She gulped her coffee and ran for the bus.► see thesaurus at drink12[transitive] (also gulp something ↔ in) to take in quick large breaths of air: Steve swam up to the surface and gulped in air.3[intransitive] to swallow suddenly because you are surprised or nervous: Mandy read the test questions and gulped.4gulp back tears to try to prevent yourself from crying: He gulped back tears as he spoke. verb | noun gulpgulp2 noun [countable] ► took a gulp Rachel took a gulp of soda. ► in one gulp He drank the rest of the beer in one gulp. an act of swallowing something quickly, or the amount swallowed: Rachel took a gulp of soda. He drank the rest of the beer in one gulp. |