suffocate

suffocate
verb
(to kill, die, cause distress to or feel distress, through lack of air or the prevention of free breathing: A baby may suffocate if it sleeps with a pillow; The smoke was suffocating him; May I open the window? I'm suffocating.) sofocar
suffocate vb asfixiar / asfixiarse
El gerundio de suffocate se escribe suffocating
suffocate
tr['sʌfəkeɪt]
transitive verb
1 asfixiar, ahogar
intransitive verb
1 asfixiarse, ahogarse
suffocate ['sʌfə.keɪt] v, -cated ; -cating vt
: asfixiar, ahogar
suffocate vi
: asfixiarse, ahogarse
suffocate
v.
ahogar v.
asfixiar v.
atafagar v.
sofocar v.
'sʌfəkeɪt
1.
transitive verb asfixiar, ahogar*

2.
vi asfixiarse, ahogarse*
['sʌfǝkeɪt]
1.
VT asfixiar, ahogar
2.
VI asfixiarse, ahogarse
* * *
['sʌfəkeɪt]
1.
transitive verb asfixiar, ahogar*

2.
vi asfixiarse, ahogarse*

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