verschlucken

Betekenis (Engels)

1. to swallow, swallow up
2. to choke (get food etc. into one's windpipe)

Koppelteken as

ver‧schlu‧cken

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).