plúch

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See also: pluch

Irish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pˠl̪ˠuːx/, /pˠlˠuːx/

Verb

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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

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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

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of plúch
radical lenition eclipsis
plúch phlúch bplúch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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