swallowed
- 1Simple past and past participle of swallow.
He swallowed hard before giving his answer.
The small boat was swallowed by the waves within minutes.
Note
One regular -ed spelling serves both past and participle, so only the surrounding sentence tells them apart. With have it builds the perfect. With be it builds a passive, and that works only for the transitive uses: a village swallowed up by floodwater, a story swallowed without question. The intransitive gulp of nerves (he swallowed hard) has no passive. Up often follows when the meaning is engulfing or appropriating.
swallowed is a form of swallow
swallow, verb: To cause food, drink, or another substance to pass from the mouth through the throat into the stomach; also, to make this throat movement without food, often as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion. Full entry
- Forms
- swallowswallows he/she/itswallowing -ing formswallowed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- swallow → swallowed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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