Difference between Drink and Swallow

What is the difference between Drink and Swallow?

Drink as a verb is to consume (a liquid) through the mouth. while Swallow as a verb is to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach.

Drink

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. To consume liquid through the mouth. To consume alcoholic beverages.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A served beverage. A served alcoholic beverage. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. A type of beverage (usually mixed) Alcohol beverages in general. (the drink; colloquial) Any body of water.

Example sentence: Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we're all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.

Swallow

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach.To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this.To take in, to consume, to absorb or cause to disappear.To believe or accept.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.

Example sentence: The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it.

We hope you now know whether to use Drink or Swallow in your sentence.

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