verschlucken

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (also, figuratively, transitive, weak) to swallow, swallow up
2. (reflexive, weak) to choke [with an (+ dative) ‘on something’], to get (something) down the wrong pipe (have food etc. enter into one's windpipe)

Sinonieme

schlucken

verschlingen

verschleifen

steckenbleiben

schuften

weismachen

abrackern

runterschlucken

ausstehen

gefressen

hinunterschlingen

Vertalings

swallow

tragar

avaler

inslikken

engloutir

ingoiare

slikken

ingurgiter

devorar

engullir

🐺

engolir

tragar

yutmak

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etimologie (Engels)

From ver- + schlucken (“to swallow”). In “to swallow up”, the prefix is used in the sense of “entirely, completely”. In “to choke”, it is used in the sense of “wrongly, faultily” (equivalent to English *to mis-swallow).