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Definition of deglutition : The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Synonyms:

drinkable, potable, beverage, swallow, drunkenness, crapulence, boozing, drink, drinking, sup

Usage examples:

• And the animated remains wiped a forehead wet already with the throes of deglutition, and eyes that were not wet at all, before applying a flickering light to his neglected Upmann. - "The Crime Doctor", Ernest William Hornung.
• Then I heard his lips move in the rhapsodic deglutition of babyland dreams. - "The Prairie Wife", Arthur Stringer.
• So we have poems of dejection, of reflection, of deglutition, of indigestion. - "Literary Lapses", Stephen Leacock.