abgewürgt

Meaning

past participle of abwürgen

abwürgen

  1. (informal, transitive, weak) to silence; to cut off (brusquely prevent someone from finishing an utterance or inquiry)
  2. (informal, transitive, weak) to stall (cause a manual-transmission engine to turn off by going too slowly for the selected gear)
  3. (figuratively, informal, transitive, weak) to stall, to kneecap (cause to stop making progress, especially catastrophically so)

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