suffocated

英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪd]

美 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪd]

v.  (使)窒息而死; (把…)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气
suffocate的过去分词和过去式

过去式：suffocated　过去分词：suffocated　

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)窒息而死;(把…)闷死
  If someonesuffocatesoris suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
  1. He either suffocated, or froze to death...
     他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
  2. They were suffocated as they slept.
     他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• V-ERG (使)呼吸困难;(使)憋闷
  If you say that youare suffocatingor that somethingis suffocatingyou, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
  1. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
     这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
  2. The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
     房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• V-ERG (受)束缚;(受)扼制
  You say that a person or thingis suffocating, or that somethingis suffocatingthem, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
  1. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
     和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• I thought he gonna freeze to death but he suffocated first.
  我以为他会被冻死，可是他却先憋死了。
• Throwing a blanket over me, she almost suffocated me, but she put out the fire.
  维妮把一条毯子盖在我身上，我给憋得几近窒息，不过她还是把火给扑灭了。
• The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
  房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• She put a distance between herself and the man who suffocated her.
  她远远地离开了那个使她窒息的男人。
• The mother has admitted to having deliberately choked, suffocated the children.
  这些孩子的母亲已经承认故意让这些孩子窒息死亡。
• They were suffocated as they slept.
  他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• These plastic bags have suffocated enough people.
  这些塑料袋闷死过不少人。
• The smoke almost suffocated me.
  这烟几乎把我窒息死了。
• Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars.
  许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。
• Autopsy results indicate she suffocated after inhaling soil but did not determine an exact cause of death.
  验尸结果显示她是在吸入泥土后窒息的，但没有确定准确的死亡原因。