verschlucken

Significado (Inglés)

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)

Conceptos

tragar

devorar

engullir

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atragantar

tragarse

deglutir

atragantamiento

ingerir

atorarse

Sinónimos

schlucken

verschlingen

verschleifen

steckenbleiben

schuften

weismachen

abrackern

runterschlucken

ausstehen

gefressen

hinunterschlingen

Traducciones

swallow

avaler

engloutir

ingoiare

slikken

inslikken

ingurgiter

yutmak

engolir

tragar

dévorer

learn

devour

Pronunciado como (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etimología (Inglés)

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).