SWALLOW

[noun] [C]A swallow is an act of using the muscles of your throat, or the amount of something you move into your stomach from your mouth by using the muscles of your throat.He gave a swallow, then began speaking.Just let me have a couple more swallows of my coffee, and I'll be ready. swallow (ACCEPT) [verb] [T] [informal] - to accept (something) without question or without expressing disagreementI found his explanation rather hard to swallow.Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow.He swallowed her story whole.She swallowed his sales pitch line hook, line and sinker (= believed it completely).I found it hard to swallow his insults.They eventually swallowed their pride (= accepted that they had to change their opinion) and signed a transport deal with the neighbouring country.