verschlucken

Senso

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

Con trattino come

ver‧schlu‧cken

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etimologia

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).