verschlucken

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  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)

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[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]
Etymologie (Englisch)

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).

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