suffocate
sofocar
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
embretar,
sofocarse,
ahogarse,
ahogar,
sofocar
example
Unable to surface to breathe, they 'suffocate' and drown and are eventually washed onto the beaches along the coast here.
SIDS, also called crib death or cot death, occurs when babies 'suffocate' accidentally or stop breathing in an event called sleep apnea.
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.
The heat had suddenly become unbearable; he thought he might 'suffocate' at any moment.
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.
Dozens of boys and men 'suffocated' to death, locked for days in an airless, sweltering shipping container by rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast, two survivors said.
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.
While climbing out of the window, his neck got stuck and it appears he was unable to breathe and 'suffocated' .
The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, 'suffocating' .
The climbers reach the peak after much struggle, but as they make their way back down, the weather closes in with 'suffocating' intensity.
This surge of hormones not only protects the infant from 'suffocation' during delivery but helps the child start breathing properly after birth.
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.
The little girl had been molested and asphyxiated, 'suffocated' to death.
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.
Twenty-one children were killed, most of them 'suffocated' , and 47 others were injured when a guardrail gave way on a dark stairwell at a school during a power blackout last Monday.
Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, 'suffocating' smog that hangs over the city.
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 have been choked and almost 'suffocated' to death during that time, all the while, more concerned about the well being of others than for myself.
The agency also places 'suffocating' constrictions on the press vis-à-vis the Imperial Family.
His legs had become trapped and the equipment was 'suffocating' him.
In the opinion of these writers, sleepers in stuffy rooms were slowly 'suffocating' in a toxic fog of their own breath, sweat, and flatulence.
As I, along with half the nation, waited, hardly daring to breathe, the announcement came that little Kathy had 'suffocated' .
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.
Another major bee pest is the tracheal mite, which gets inside adult bees and clogs their breathing tubes, essentially 'suffocating' the insects.
The film's entertainment value is 'suffocated' and the lack of individual character development means that the viewer's empathy in these heart-rending scenes is nonexistent.
An aching in my chest, so intense, so powerful and paralysing: I was 'suffocating' , couldn't breathe, smoke was filling my mouth.
A post-mortem examination showed he was asphyxiated, or 'suffocated' .
In her work she constructs a world that is airless and 'suffocating' .
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