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A spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing
Answer for the clue "A spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing ", 7 letters:
gulping
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gulp \Gulp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gulped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gulping .] [D. gulpen, cf. OD. golpe gulf.] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. --Cowper. The old man ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The action of one who gulps. vb. (present participle of gulp English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing [syn: gulp ] the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly [syn: swilling , guzzling ]
Usage examples of gulping.
I heard someone make a sick, gulping noise, and realized a moment later it was me.
The Singer from the Sea The crest of the water curled above them in a glassy mountain, foam edged, growing higher and more curled, then higher yet, breaking at last as the wave lipped over the walls, gulping the city into the maw of the sea.
Then the sniffings and rootlings round the huts, the latherings and flappy droolings, the regular flinging of his bulk against any weakness, the splitting of wood, the human cries, the heavy arhythmical bounding of the chase, the incensed rip-pings and gulpings of the kill.