torkollik

From torok (“throat”) +‎ -ollik (verb-forming suffix).

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• Hyphenation: tor‧kol‧lik
• Rhymes: -olːik

torkollik

1. (intransitive, of a river) to flow, empty (into something: -ba/-be)

   Synonym: ömlik

   A Yukon folyó a Bering-tengerbe torkollik. ― The Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea.

2. (intransitive, of a street) to meet, lead (into something: -ba/-be)

   Synonym: vezet

   Egy kisebb utcában lakom, ami a főutcába torkollik. ― I live in a small street that leads to the main street.

3. (intransitive, figurative, higher register) to come to, end in, lead (to something: -ba/-be)

   Fáradozásom zsákutcába torkollt. ― My efforts came to a dead end.

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(With verbal prefixes):

• torkollik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN