suffocated

英 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪd]

美 [ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪd]

v.  (使)窒息而死; (把…)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气
suffocate的过去分词和过去式

过去式：suffocated　过去分词：suffocated　

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)窒息而死;(把…)闷死
  If someonesuffocatesoris suffocated, they die because there is no air for them to breathe.
  1. He either suffocated, or froze to death...
     他要么是闷死的，要么是冻死的。
  2. They were suffocated as they slept.
     他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• V-ERG (使)呼吸困难;(使)憋闷
  If you say that youare suffocatingor that somethingis suffocatingyou, you mean that you feel very uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air and it is difficult to breathe.
  1. That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room...
     这样好些了，我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
  2. The airlessness of the room suffocated her.
     房间里密不透风，憋得她喘不上气来。
• V-ERG (受)束缚;(受)扼制
  You say that a person or thingis suffocating, or that somethingis suffocatingthem, when the situation that they are in does not allow them to act freely or to develop.
  1. After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating...
     和父母呆了几个星期后，她感到自己毫无自由。
  2. The governor's proposals would actually cost millions of jobs and suffocate the economy.
     总督的计划可能会造成上百万人失业，并束缚经济发展。

双语例句

• The smoke almost suffocated me.
  这烟几乎把我窒息死了。
• If we had arrived a minute later they would have suffocated.
  如果我们晚到一分钟，他们可能已窒息而死。
• These plastic bags have suffocated enough people.
  这些塑料袋闷死过不少人。
• It is said that they were suffocated in bed by pillows being pressed over their mouths.
  据说他们是在床上被人用枕头捂住嘴巴窒息致死的。
• Throwing a blanket over me, she almost suffocated me, but she put out the fire.
  维妮把一条毯子盖在我身上，我给憋得几近窒息，不过她还是把火给扑灭了。
• I think he suffocated her.
  我认为是他使她窒息而亡。
• I care about her more and more and can not do without her, that she felt suffocated, she can not stand, had the idea of escape.
  我越来越在乎她，越来越离不开她，以至于她感到快要窒息了，她已经受不了，产生了逃避的念头。
• He suffocated in the plastic bag, you idiot!!.
  他被闷死在那个塑料袋里了。你个傻瓜！
• They were suffocated as they slept.
  他们睡觉时窒息而死。
• Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars.
  许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。