Translation
to suffocate, to smother (someone or something); to stifle
Word origin
From Latin suffocare, built from sub ('under') and fauces ('throat'). The picture inside the word is a squeezing under the throat, which is exactly what the verb still means.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- suffocare
- English cognates
- suffocate, fauces
Examples
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The warm air in the room almost suffocated us.
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He opened the window, because the thick air was suffocating him.
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The tall grass smothered the young plants.
is transitive: the smoke, the collar or the grass does the suffocating, and something else receives it. If you want the person who cannot breathe, put the -- on it and say i. English blurs the two with one verb, so this is a place where Esperanto is fussier than the language you are translating from.
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