suffocate: [16] To suffocate someone is etymologically to press down their ‘throat’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin suffocāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘under, down’ and faucēs ‘throat’ (source of the English technical term faucal ‘of the throat’ [19]). The origins of faucēs are not known. => faucal
suffocate (v.)
early 15c. (transitive), "deprive of air, choke, kill by preventing access of air to the lungs," also figurative, "stifle, smother, extinguish," from Latin suffocatus, past participle of suffocare "to choke" (see suffocation). Intransitive use, "become choked, stifled, or smothered," is from 1702. Related: Suffocated; suffocating.
雙語例句
1. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
總督的計(jì)劃可能會造成上百萬人失業(yè)，并束縛經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A " free city " which was not genuinely free would suffocate freedom.
一個并不真正自由的 “ 自由城 ” 將使自由受到窒息.
來自辭典例句
3. She felt often she must suffocate.
她不時感到自己非窒息致死不可.
來自辭典例句
4. Improperly applied, it can suffocate the Bill of Right, turn our democracy into totalitarian state.