Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being swallowed; hence, capable of being believed; credible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
swallowed . - adjective of a pill, etc. Relatively easy to
swallow . - adjective by extension, of legislation Able to be accepted by the electorate.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So this is political nightmare that can only be undone when tough, swallowable rules are voted upon.
Richard Laermer: Athens: New World to Emulate Richard Laermer 2011
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Certainly not the only outcome, but I think it's a swallowable one.
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The new version of the Given Imaging swallowable PillCam will cost around $500 and is ingested.
Israeli Innovations to Make Colonoscopy Obsolete | Impact Lab 2007
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It had just been puppy-proofed, which means swallowable things off the floor.
Where I'm blogging from... Ann Althouse 2009
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In this part of the afterlife, you imagine something analogous to your Earthly life, and the thought is blissful: a life where episodes are split into tiny swallowable pieces, where moments do not endure, where one experiences the joy of jumping from one event to the next like a child hopping from spot to spot on the burning sand.
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The company's founders took the miniaturized sensing systems from the nose cones of fighter jets to create a swallowable camera.
Soldiers of Fortune 2009
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In this part of the afterlife, you imagine something analogous to your Earthly life, and the thought is blissful: a life where episodes are split into tiny swallowable pieces, where moments do not endure, where one experiences the joy of jumping from one event to the next like a child hopping from spot to spot on the burning sand.
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Sounds a lot more swallowable than 'you've been screwed.'
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So, I wadded it up, compressed it into ball of decent swallowable size, and gulped.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Next time I suggest taking your pill with something that is proven to be swallowable.
Medical cabin fever, mixed mental ages and Thatcher in a tank Elizabeth McClung 2007
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