verschlucken

Signification (Anglais)

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)

Concepts

avaler

engloutir

ingurgiter

dévorer

ravaler

réprimer

Synonymes

schlucken

verschlingen

verschleifen

steckenbleiben

schuften

weismachen

abrackern

runterschlucken

ausstehen

gefressen

hinunterschlingen

Traductions

swallow

tragar

ingoiare

inslikken

slikken

engullir

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yutmak

tragar

engolir

devorar

ingerire

divorare

deglutire

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Étymologie (Anglais)

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).