verschlucken

Bedeutung

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

Mit Bindestrich als

ver‧schlu‧cken

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etymologie

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).