Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncommon)To utter in or with the throat.

    to throat threats

  2. (informal)To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)

  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Examples

364 sentences
  1. My throat hurts when I swallow.

    Коли я ковтаю, в мене болить горло. — deniko

    ruУ меня болит горло, когда я глотаю. — marafon

    deMir tut beim Schlucken der Hals weh. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I don't have a sore throat.

    У мене не болить горло. — deniko

    ruУ меня не болит горло. — marafon

    deIch habe keine Halsschmerzen. — wolfgangth

  3. I still have a sore throat.

    У мене досі запалене горло. — Ahha

    deIch habe immer noch Halsschmerzen. — wolfgangth

  4. I've got a frog in my throat.

    Я захрип. — deniko

    ruЯ охрип. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe einen Frosch im Hals. — MUIRIEL

  5. I have a sore throat and a fever.

    У мене болить горло і підвищена температура. — Ahha

    ruУ меня температура, и горло болит. — Wezel

    deIch habe Halsschmerzen und Fieber. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-We

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

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Forms

throats, throating, throated, throated
Base formthroat · to throat
3rd person singularthroats
Present participlethroating
Past simplethroated
Past participlethroated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythroat
he, she, itthroats

Past simpleLesson

all personsthroated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave throated
he, she, ithas throated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill throat

Collocations

5 patterns
  • a sore throat
  • sore throat
  • cleared his throat
  • sore throat and
  • in my throat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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