Usually means: Engulf completely, absorb or consume.
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  1. swallow up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swallow up: Vocabulary.com
  3. swallow up: Wiktionary
  4. swallow up: Dictionary.com
  5. swallow up: Rhymezone
  6. swallow up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. swallow up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. swallow up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swallow up: Legal dictionary

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  1. swallow up: Encyclopedia

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  1. swallow up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (swallow up)

verb:  To completely enclose or envelop.
verb:  To take over or absorb something (especially an organisation) so it no longer has a separate identity; to assimilate.
verb:  To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.

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