English-Italian translations for smother

soffocareNon è neppure la prima volta che viene denunciata la tecnica del cuscino per soffocare le grida di chi viene espulso. It is not the first time that the technique of using a pillow to smother the cries of those being expelled has been condemned.
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asfissiareE' una passo necessario, ma abbiamo anche un disperato bisogno di nuove regole per l'agricoltura, al fine di poter produrre alimenti senza al contempo asfissiare il Mar Baltico. That is a necessary move, but we also badly need new rules for agriculture, so that we can produce food without smothering the Baltic Sea at the same time.
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To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone
To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
In cookery: to cook in a close dish
To daub or smear
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like
to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed
To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away
That which smothers or appears to smother, ''particularly''

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