suffocate
خنق
definition
verb
ten detainees suffocated in an airless police cell
die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.
translation of 'suffocate'
verb
اختنق,
خنق
example
The heat had suddenly become unbearable; he thought he might 'suffocate' at any moment.
They are constrictors; they 'suffocate' their prey by coiling around it and squeezing.
She shuddered remembering the last time she had missed the early bus and how she had had to sit beside some guy wearing so much cologne she thought that she would 'suffocate' from lack of real air.
Almost everybody used it, in every conceivable situation, and constantly, in such a way as would oppress and 'suffocate' us could we go back in time and live in that environment.
SIDS, also called crib death or cot death, occurs when babies 'suffocate' accidentally or stop breathing in an event called sleep apnea.
Unable to surface to breathe, they 'suffocate' and drown and are eventually washed onto the beaches along the coast here.
Another major bee pest is the tracheal mite, which gets inside adult bees and clogs their breathing tubes, essentially 'suffocating' the insects.
To complete the whole, the windows were all closed and the air 'suffocating' .
Friends of my family who were taken prisoner during the Bay of Pigs invasion 'suffocated' to death in airless trucks as they were being transported to detention.
The loneliness that had been pervading my life and slowly 'suffocating' me was now lifting, and I could breathe freely again.
The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, 'suffocating' .
Trapped, 'suffocating' , and every other clichéd word one can look up in the thesaurus to describe being stranded in this small terraced island in the Pacific.
I felt I was being trapped, 'suffocated' by their delighted chatter and effusion.
This surge of hormones not only protects the infant from 'suffocation' during delivery but helps the child start breathing properly after birth.
He felt like he was 'suffocating' under his father's oppression.
The air was close and 'suffocating' in the black car, as she drove aimlessly down the interstate, trying to flee from all her memories and the life that was sucking all the wants and needs from her that once made her happy.
Each small change is difficult to argue against but the overall effect is 'suffocating' for the people we then expect to provide a decent public service.
Perhaps David and his like will only be happy when they are known as ‘Citizen 326789’ or some similar Orwellian label that 'suffocates' what remains of individual freedom.
The girls, aged three and four, were 'suffocated' by fumes from the fire which started in the ground-floor flat of the three storey Victorian house in Osterley Road.
A Yorkshire businessman died as a result of 'suffocation' , it was revealed yesterday, but mystery still surrounds his death.
Scheele described the chlorine gas formed as having a greenish yellow color and a 'suffocating' odor ‘most oppressive to the lungs.’
While climbing out of the window, his neck got stuck and it appears he was unable to breathe and 'suffocated' .
En route, approximately half of the captives 'suffocated' or were killed by shots fired by soldiers into the airtight containers.
The climbers reach the peak after much struggle, but as they make their way back down, the weather closes in with 'suffocating' intensity.
Sometimes she would wake at night unable to breathe, terrified she was 'suffocating' .
Nothing is too tacky, nothing too 'suffocatingly' sentimental for daytime television.
Cyclone B, or hydrogen cyanide, is a very poisonous gas that causes death by internal 'suffocation' .
It's typical that his reputation in the 'suffocatingly' highbrow environs of classical music is often that of a composer who's too simplistic or too ‘emotional’.
One gruesome scene is shot behind an oppressive red filter, visually 'suffocating' the viewer.
Although, the holes in the watery Wicklow defence were initially plugged, the problem of their inability to create scoreable chances was still 'suffocating' their performance.
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