suffocate

英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪt]

美 [ˈsʌfəkeɪt]

v.  (使)窒息而死; (把…)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气

现在分词：suffocating　过去分词：suffocated　过去式：suffocated　第三人称单数：suffocates　

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Collins.1 / BNC.13924 / COCA.12526

牛津词典

verb

• （使）窒息而死；（把…）闷死
  to die because there is no air to breathe; to kill sb by not letting them breathe air
  1. Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars.
     许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。
  2. The couple were suffocated by fumes from a faulty gas fire.
     由于劣质煤气取暖器漏气，这对夫妇窒息而死。
  3. He put the pillow over her face and suffocated her.
     他用枕头捂住她的脸，把她憋死了。
  4. She felt suffocated by all the rules and regulations.
     她受不了所有那些条条框框的束缚。
• 让人感觉闷热；憋气
  if it is suffocating , it is very hot and there is little fresh air
  1. Can I open a window? It's suffocating in here!
     我可以打开窗户吗？这里面都快把人闷死了！

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)窒息而死;(把…)闷死
  If someonesuffocatesoris suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
  1. He either suffocated, or froze to death...
     他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
  2. They were suffocated as they slept.
     他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• V-ERG (使)呼吸困难;(使)憋闷
  If you say that youare suffocatingor that somethingis suffocatingyou, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
  1. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
     这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
  2. The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
     房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• V-ERG (受)束缚;(受)扼制
  You say that a person or thingis suffocating, or that somethingis suffocatingthem, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
  1. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
     和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
  2. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
     总督的计划可能会造成上百万人失业，并束缚经济发展。

英英释义

verb

• struggle for breath
  1. he swallowed a fishbone and gagged
  Synonym:gagchokestrangle
• feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
  1. The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating
• be asphyxiated
  1. The child suffocated under the pillow
  Synonym:stifleasphyxiate
• suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
  1. His job suffocated him
  Synonym:choke
• become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
  1. He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village
  Synonym:choke
• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
  1. The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
  Synonym:stifleasphyxiatechoke
• deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  1. Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow
  2. The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor
  Synonym:smotherasphyxiate

双语例句

• A touch on the chest silenced me: I am stout, and soon put out of breath; and, what with that and the rage, I staggered dizzily back, and felt ready to suffocate, or to burst a blood vessel.
  他当胸一拳使我住嘴了：我很胖，一下子就喘不过气来：加上那一击和愤怒，我昏沉沉地蹒跚倒退，觉得就要闷死，或者血管爆裂。
• In open societies that respect the sanctity of the individual and our free will, or in closed societies that suffocate the soul?
  生活在尊重个人的神圣权利和我们的自由意志的开放社会中还是在窒息灵魂的封闭社会里？
• But you would still suffocate.
  可你还是会窒息而死。
• It can freeze whatever it contacts ( including your eyes), it is heavier than air and can suffocate you, and it produces a poisonous gas when it comes in contact with an open flame.
  它能使任何接触到的物质结冰（包括你的眼睛），它比空气重，会使你窒息而死，当遇到明火时，它会释放出有毒气体。
• I fear the conservative attitudes which accompany such a greying may suffocate initiative and stifle dynamism.
  我担心，伴随年老而来的保守态度，可能会扼杀主动性和活力。
• But they do suffocate from a lack of air.
  但它们确实也会因为缺少空气而窒息。
• If I don't speak out my feelings now, I think I'll suffocate.
  如果我不吐露心声的话，就会窒息的。
• I could feel myself starting to suffocate.
  我能感觉到自己开始呼吸困难。
• Have you ever seen a human being suffocate?
  你有没有见过一个人窒息而死啊？
• They were suffocated as they slept.
  他们睡觉时窒息而死。