EXPECTORATING Antonyms

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

• the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe

• causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat

• very strong; urgently felt

• a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing

• the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• characterized by oppressive heat and humidity

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly

• take up mentally

• draw deep into the lungs in by breathing

• draw in (air)

• hold back within

• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

• secure and keep for possible future use or application

• keep in one's mind

• a small amount of liquid food

• the act of swallowing

• small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations

• pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking

• engulf and destroy

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

• utter unclearly

• take back what one has said

• keep from expressing

• tolerate or accommodate oneself to

• believe or accept without questioning or challenge