English-Portuguese translations for suffocate

• sufocar
  Elevados níveis de algas em resultado de um crescimento incontrolado podem também, em caso extremo, «sufocar» ecossistemas. As a result of the uncontrolled growth in algae, high levels can also ultimately 'suffocate' ecosystems.
  Queremos dizer-lhes que nenhum ditador pode sufocar o direito aos direitos e às aspirações de liberdade e democracia. We wish to tell them that no dictator can suffocate the right to rights in relation to aspirations for freedom and democracy.
• asfixiar

Definition of suffocate

• To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body
• To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body
• To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed , as though with oxygen deprivation
• To destroy; to extinguish
• Suffocated; choked

Examples

• Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
• He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
• Im suffocating under this huge workload.
• to suffocate fire

Related words

• suffocation
• suffocating
• suffocatingly
• suffocator