English-Spanish translations for smother

sofocar
ahogarEste proyecto de Constitución que pretende ahogar los Estados es, en mi opinión, incompatible con la expresión democrática. This draft constitution, which seeks to smother individual states, is, in my opinion, incompatible with democratic expression.

apagar
asfixiar¿Va a asfixiar a las PYME alimentarias con una reglamentación cada vez más rígida, que los ciudadanos soportan cada vez menos? Will it smother small- and medium-sized food businesses with even stricter regulation, that will be tolerated by fewer and fewer citizens? Ese es un paso necesario, pero también necesitamos con urgencia una nueva normativa para la agricultura, para que se puedan producir alimentos sin asfixiar al mar Báltico al mismo tiempo. 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.
extinguir
reprimir

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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