Portuguese-English translations for asfixiar

asphyxiate
chokeIf this chokes growth or causes unemployment, so be it. Se isso asfixiar o crescimento ou provocar desemprego, paciência. Not a word about the satanically inspired wall designed to choke Palestine or about the criminal settlements and the cynical threats against the elected President Arafat. Nem uma só palavra sobre a parede de inspiração satânica destinada a asfixiar a Palestina, nem sobre os colonatos criminosos e as ameaças cínicas contra o Presidente eleito Yasser Arafat. Ever since he choked on a bone, he has refused to eat fish

smotherto smother a fire with ashesThe committees report was smotheredbeefsteak smothered with onions
smother stifle
suffocateOpen 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.

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