Difference between Swallow and Accept

What is the difference between Swallow and Accept?

Swallow as a verb is to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach. while Accept as a verb is to receive, especially with a consent, with favour or with approval.

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: A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Accept

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To receive, especially with a consent, with favour or with approval.To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.To endure patiently.(commerce) To agree to pay.To receive officially; as, to accept the report of a committee.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Accepted.

Example sentence: We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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

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