suffocate

1 The night of the accident, Seward’s face swelled so badly that his children could barely recognize him, and the blood pouring through his nose almost suffocated him.

2 Fear was like a cloud itself, threatening to suffocate him.

3 In the air there is always the heavy, cloying odor of the alcohol distillery on the river, an odor that becomes suffocating on hot summer afternoons when the breeze blows in from the river.

4 The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving, and she did not like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept pressing against her mouth.

5 Nightmares of the day Princess Myrcella had sailed still troubled her sleep; dark suffocating dreams that woke her in the black of night, struggling for breath.

6 Once I’m in the hallway, I gulp down air like I’ve been suffocating.

7 I felt kind of suffocated by his T-shirt, but it felt good to be held so hard, pressed into the comfortable smell of my dad.

8 The heat is tolerable at night but suffocate during the day.

在夜间尚能忍受这种高温,但白天就令人感到呼吸困难.

9 A nurse was there to suction them out so he wouldn’t suffocate.

10 “The totals are bad,” Brian said, plunging, wanting to get it over with, wanting to get out of the school, this office, Leon’s suffocating presence.

11 The frog spawn needs air and would suffocate in the stagnant pool below.

蛙卵需要空气,在不流动的水池里会窒息而死.

12 Jonathan felt the men around him shift uneasily, sensing the fear that had settled over the group like a suffocating blanket.

13 She kept pushing, her hands enmeshed in the haint’s horrible rubbery flesh, the stench of death and fresh paint suffocating her.

14 It took me another five minutes to get through there, and I thought I’d suffocate with all the cigars and pipes, but at least I was near the ground where the air was slightly fresher.

15 “It’s not corrosive. I think it was meant to either suffocate or poison us.”

16 There would be a couple of knights who had suffocated themselves in their own helms during the course of a battle, a misfortune which frequently happened in those days of violent exercise and small vents.

17 Most of the women did not suffocate, but burned to death in the brilliant roar of the flames.

多数女人没有窒息致死，而是在熊熊燃烧的火焰中被活活烧死的。

18 I'll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate.

19 The heat is horrible, but worse than the heat is the smoke, which threatens to suffocate me at any moment.

20 From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.

1 呼吸困难

breathless dyspnea puffed short-winded dyspnoeic smotheration stifle smother dyspnoea

2 使呼吸困难

stifle smother

3 使窒息

throttle damp choke smother strangle asphyxiate strangulate stifle dampen

4 憋气

tight

5 熄灭

extinct extinction smother damp extinguish stifle quench snuff douse slake

6 扼杀

kill throttle choke strangle garrotte snuff out

7 抑制

inhibiting control check brake curb restraint inhibition containment repression master throttle suppress choke inhibit refrain restrain smother subdue strangle repress quell deaden hold back hold down bottle up

8 窒闷

close stuffy airless stifling fuggy closeness suffocation fug stifle strangle

9 受阻

checked

10 窒息

asphyxy choke apnea choking asphyxia throttle gag stifle smother strangle asphyxiate damp strangulate strangulation choked asphyxiant asphyxial suffocative suffocation asphyxiation airless fusty apnoea dampen choky

11 阻止

discouragement check stop contain block prevent fix arrest stem prohibit discourage forbid choke hinder deter obstruct avert marginalize stymie debar deliver a knockout put the mockers on keep from hold off fight off block off

12 把…闷死

smother

13 闷死

stifle smother worry asphyxiation asphyxia choke strangle asphyxiate

14 遏制

suffocating restraint containment deterrence contain stem restrain squelch hold at bay keep at bay

15 窒息而死

strangle asphyxiate

16 闷熄

smother