verschlucken

Meaning

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

Hyphenated as

ver‧schlu‧cken

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).