To be swallowed up 意思是吞并，统战的意思。在商业中意思是接管。

例句

London has grown so much that is has swallowed up all the outlying villages.

Food and heating swallows up much of our household income.

The company was swallowed up in a corporate merger.

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另一个短语 to swallow it – 意思是忍气吞声地接受什么东西。

Customers will just have to swallow the price rises.

You've got no choice about the decision so just swallow it and move on.

We've lost the deposit on the holiday, we will have just have to swallow it.