Suffocate

['sʌfəkeɪt] or ['sʌfəket]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; 'The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating'.

(verb.) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; 'The child suffocated under the pillow'.

(verb.) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; 'His job suffocated him'.

(verb.) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; 'He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village'.

(verb.) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; 'The foul air was slowly suffocating the children'.

科尔校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Suffocated; choked.

(v. t.) To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother.

(v. t.) To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire.

(v. i.) To become choked, stifled, or smothered.

整理:韦尔登

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Stifle, smother, choke, strangle, kill (by stopping respiration).

手打:威尔

同義詞及反義詞：

[See S]

朱厄尔錄入

解釋/意思:

v.t. to choke by stopping the breath: to stifle:—pa.p. suff′ocāted.—p.adj. (Shak.) suffocated.—p.adj. Suff′ocāting choking.—adv. Suff′ocātingly.—n. Suffocā′tion act of suffocating: state of being suffocated.—adj. Suff′ocātive tending to suffocate.

錄入:皮埃尔