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misswallow

misswallow verb: to swallow incorrectly.

Verb

misswallow (third-person singular simple present misswallows, present participle misswallowing, simple past and past participle misswallowed)

  1. To swallow incorrectly.
    • If the sensory branches of the laryngeal nerve (superior laryngeal nerve) are paralysed, the danger is great, for the patients, owing to the abolished reflex action, are prone to misswallow (dysphagia) , and become subject to "foreign body pneumonia."1910, Alfred Bruck, F. W. Forbes Ross, The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx, page 305
    • Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.1981, Muscular Dystrophy Abstracts - Volume 25, page 46

Examples of misswallow in a sentence

  • He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.2004, Jane Alison, The Marriage of the Sea:
  • I misswallow some of my own wine and am left coughing.2012, Sophie Perinot, The Sister Queens:
  • Old Path's drinking noises turned to bubbling as he misswallowed.2013, John Whitbourn, The Royal Changeling:

Forms of misswallow

third-person singular presentmisswallows
present participlemisswallowing
past participlemisswallowed
pastmisswallowed

Origin of misswallow

From mis- + swallow.

Questions about misswallow

What does misswallow mean?
Misswallow means to swallow incorrectly.
How do you use misswallow in a sentence?
He looked up the embankment directly at Vera and then through Vera at Lach, who misswallowed his drink and was coughing by the time Vera reached him.
What part of speech is misswallow?
Misswallow is a verb.
What is the past tense of misswallow?
The past tense of misswallow is misswallowed.

Words near misswallow in the dictionary

  1. missuspects
  2. missuture
  3. missutured
  4. missutures
  5. missuturing
  6. misswallow
  7. misswallowed
  8. misswallowing
  9. misswallows
  10. missway
  11. misswayed

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