verschlucken

Betekenis (Engels)

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)

Concepten

inslikken

slikken

wegslikken

Synoniemen

schlucken

verschlingen

verschleifen

steckenbleiben

schuften

weismachen

abrackern

runterschlucken

ausstehen

gefressen

hinunterschlingen

Vertalingen

swallow

tragar

avaler

engloutir

ingoiare

ingurgiter

yutmak

engolir

devorar

tragar

engullir

🐺

dévorer

learn

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etymologie (Engels)

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).