to suffocate

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English - Turkish
{f} boğulmak

Hangisi daha kötü bilmiyorum: parçalara ayrılmak veya boğulmak. - I don't know what's worse: being dismembered or suffocated.

boğmak
bunaltmak
tıkamak
boğ

Tom plastik bir torba ile Mary'yi boğdu. - Tom suffocated Mary with a plastic bag.

Kurbanların çoğu ya yanarak ya da boğularak öldü. - Many of the victims either burnt to death or suffocated.

(havasızlıktan) boğulmak
(Tıp) Soluk alışı önleme suretiyle boğmak
{f} söndürmek
(Tıp) Soluk alamama sebebiyle boğulmak
{f} hava alamamak
{f} tıkanmak
{f} bunalmak
English - English
To die due to insufficient oxygen supply to the body
To kill a person or creature by depriving it of sufficient oxygen intake
To suffer from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
To make weary with excessive and prolonged contact, as though depriving of oxygen
To cause someone to suffer severely reduced oxygen supply to his body
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
{v} to choke, stifle, smother, kill
feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating" be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow" suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him"
To destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fire
If someone suffocates or is suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe. He either suffocated, or froze to death They were suffocated as they slept. + suffocation suf·fo·ca·tion Many of the victims died of suffocation
To be overwhelmed by a person or issue, surrounded as though being deprived of oxygen
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children
You say that a person or thing is suffocating, or that something is suffocating them, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy
impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
To choke or kill by stopping respiration; to stifle; to smother
Suffocated; choked
become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village"
feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air; "The room was hot and stuffy and we were suffocating"
To cause someone to suffer severly reduced oxygen supply to his body
If you say that you are suffocating or that something is suffocating you, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room The airlessness of the room suffocated her
To become choked, stifled, or smothered
{f} smother, asphyxiate, kill by cutting of the oxygen supply; make it difficult to breathe; cause discomfort by cutting of the supply of fresh or cool air; stifle; be smothered
to suffocate

    Hyphenation

    to suf·fo·cate

    Turkish pronunciation

    tı sʌfıkeyt

    Pronunciation

    /tə ˈsəfəˌkāt/ /tə ˈsʌfəˌkeɪt/

    Etymology

    [ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.
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