Difference between Swallow and Drink

What is the difference between Swallow and Drink?

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

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: One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

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: A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

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

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