swallow

To take into the stomach through the throat, as food or drink; receive through the organs of deglutition; take into the body through the mouth.

Hence, in figurative use, to draw or take in, in any way; absorb; appropriate; exhaust; consume; engulf: usually followed by up.

Specifically To take into the mind readily or credulously; receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; receive implicitly; drink in: sometimes with down.

To put up with; bear; take patiently.

To retract; recant.