| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | An act of swallowing: gulp, ingestion. See MOUTH. | | VERB: | 1. Slang. To regard (something) as true or real: accept, believe. Slang : buy. See OPINION. 2. To do away with completely and destructively. Also used with up: consume, devour, eat (up), waste. See HELP. 3. To put up with: abide, accept, bear, brook2, endure, go, stand (for), stomach, suffer, support, sustain, take, tolerate, withstand. Informal : lump2. Idioms: take it, take it lying down. See ACCEPT. 4. To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach: ingest, take. See MOUTH.
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