plúch

See also: pluch

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pˠlˠuːx/

Verb

plúch (present analytic plúchann, future analytic plúchfaidh, verbal noun plúchadh, past participle plúchta) (transitive)

  1. to suffocate (transitive), smother, asphyxiate, stifle
  2. to choke (transitive)
    Synonym: tacht
  3. to press, squeeze
  4. to congest
  5. to muffle (mute or deaden)
  6. to inundate (overwhelm)
    1. (business) to glut (a market)
    2. (telecommunications) to jam (block or confuse a broadcast signal)

Usage notes

The Irish verb is transitive; the intransitive English senses of suffocate, choke etc. must be translated using a passive or impersonal construction, such as Tá sé á phlúchadh (He is choking), Plúchadh iad (They (were) suffocated), or by making the thing on which the person choked the subject of the sentence, as Phlúch an deatach í (She asphyxiated on the smoke, literally The smoke asphyxiated her).

Conjugation

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

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