verschlucken

Meaning

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

swallow

clip

devour

digest

gulp

learn

swallow up

take in

understand

choke

catch on to

Synonyms

schlucken

verschlingen

verschleifen

steckenbleiben

schuften

weismachen

abrackern

runterschlucken

ausstehen

gefressen

hinunterschlingen

Translations

tragar

avaler

inslikken

ingoiare

engloutir

slikken

yutmak

ingurgiter

engolir

tragar

devorar

engullir

🐺

atorarse

Pronounced as (IPA)

[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlʊkŋ̩]

Etymology

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).