suffocate

verb · adjectiveB2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

suffocates

V_ing/Gerund

suffocating

V_ed/pp

suffocated

1.
(ergative)To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
2.
(ergative)To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
3.
(ergative, figuratively)To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
4.
(transitive)To destroy; to extinguish.
to suffocate fire

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more suffocate

Superlative

most suffocate

1.
(obsolete)(obsolete, as a participle) Suffocated, choked.
2.
(obsolete)Smothered, overwhelmed.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

drown choke stifleasphyxiatesmotherTo suffer from reduced oxygen asphyxiate, chokeTo die from insufficient oxygen stifle, chokeTo be overwhelmed drownTo reduce oxygen supply asphyxiate, choke, smotherTo kill by deprivation of oxygen asphyxiate, choke, stifleTo make weary with contact smother

Cùng gốc / liên quan

suffocatersuffocativesuffocatorunsuffocatesmothercatesuffocationasphyxia

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Nguồn gốc từ

The adjective is 1420s, the verb in 1526; from Middle English suffocat(e) (deprived of air, suffocated), borrowed from Latin suffōcātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin suffōcō (see -ate and -ate), from sub- (under, up to) + fōx (throat). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.