Sich verschlucken oder Brechreiz verspüren.
Choking or feeling like vomiting.
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Er würgte an der bitteren Medizin. — He was gagging on the bitter medicine.
Warum würgt der Hund an diesem Knochen? — Why is the dog gagging on that bone?
Er fing an zu würgen, sobald er es probiert hatte. — He started gagging as soon as he tasted it.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testWürgen is the gagging and choking verb, and it also means to strangle — jemanden würgen. English separates gag from strangle; German lets one verb do both, and the object decides.
The three-way ambiguity of English gag does not exist here at all. The joke sense is der Gag, borrowed from English and used only for a comic bit; the gag in the mouth is der Knebel, and a gag order is a Maulkorberlass, literally a muzzle decree.
Knebel gag, muzzle
The physical gag. German uses a separate word where English reuses one.
Gag comic gag
Borrowed from English and confined to comedy. It never means the mouth gag or the retching.
erbrechen to vomit
The act itself. Würgen is only the reflex, and it may go no further.
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