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

• The sight of buckets of fish piled on the deck left to suffocate is a sure sign of suffering.
  因此，那些堆在甲板上或生鲜市场里一桶又一桶的鱼，其奄奄一息的窒息表情无疑是极度痛苦中的哀求与暗示啊！
• 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。
• Yes, they can keep air off the skin to some extent, but that's what a good antioxidant is supposed to do; they do not suffocate skin!
  是的，它们在某种程度上能把空气和皮肤隔离开，但好的抗氧剂就是应该这么做；它们不窒息皮肤！
• Have you ever seen a human being suffocate?
  你有没有见过一个人窒息而死啊？
• If my soul to heaven, I will suffocate because it is white everywhere paradise.
  如果我的魂魄到了天堂，我将闷死，因为听说天堂到处是白色。
• She felt often she must suffocate.
  她不时感到自己非窒息致死不可。
• I do not intend to suffocate in a county hospital.
  我不想在乡村医院被闷死。
• The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
  房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• 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。
• But you would still suffocate.
  可你还是会窒息而死。