suffocate: [16] To suffocate someone is etymologically to press down their ‘throat’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin suffocāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘under, down’ and faucēs ‘throat’ (source of the English technical term faucal ‘of the throat’ [19]). The origins of faucēs are not known. => faucal
suffocate (v.)
early 15c. (transitive), "deprive of air, choke, kill by preventing access of air to the lungs," also figurative, "stifle, smother, extinguish," from Latin suffocatus, past participle of suffocare "to choke" (see suffocation). Intransitive use, "become choked, stifled, or smothered," is from 1702. Related: Suffocated; suffocating.
双语例句
1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A " free city " which was not genuinely free would suffocate freedom.
一个并不真正自由的 “ 自由城 ” 将使自由受到窒息.
来自辞典例句
3. She felt often she must suffocate.
她不时感到自己非窒息致死不可.
来自辞典例句
4. Improperly applied, it can suffocate the Bill of Right, turn our democracy into totalitarian state.
运用不当, 它就会扼杀权利法案, 把我们的民主政体变成极权主义国家.
来自辞典例句
5. Are you trying to suffocate us with that putrid smell?
