suffocate

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vt. 使窒息, 噎住, 闷熄 vi. 闷死, 窒息, 受阻

发音

其它 /ˈsʌfəkeɪt/
其它 /ˈsʌfəkət/

词形变化

suffocated suffocates 三单 suffocates suffocateth suffocating suffocating 现在分词 suffocated 过去式 suffocated 过去分词 more suffocate 比较级 most suffocate 最高级

教材释义与例句

动词

压制，阻碍；使……窒息

动词

受阻，受扼制；窒息

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.

    窒息

    使窒息

    Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!

  2. 2.

    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. 3.

    To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.

    比喻

    I'm suffocating under this huge workload.

  4. 4.

    To destroy; to extinguish.

    及物

    to suffocate fire

adj.
  1. 1.

    Suffocated, choked.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    Smothered, overwhelmed.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 6

choke gag strangle smother stifle asphyxiate

上位词 10

go feel kill turn die hurt become pass block suffer

下位词 1

strangle

近义相关 4

choke smother stifle asphyxiate

词源

The adjective is first attested in the 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 (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from sub- (“under, up to”) + fōx (“throat”, oblique stem in fōc-). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

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