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

• 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。
• I am suffocated by the intense heat.
  我被炎热窒息了。
• Autopsy results indicate she suffocated after inhaling soil but did not determine an exact cause of death.
  验尸结果显示她是在吸入泥土后窒息的，但没有确定准确的死亡原因。
• She put a distance between herself and the man who suffocated her.
  她远远地离开了那个使她窒息的男人。
• These plastic bags have suffocated enough people.
  这些塑料袋闷死过不少人。
• During the fire, he was trapped under the cabin and was suffocated to death.
  火患发生时，他被困在舱底下窒息而死。
• I feel suffocated in a tightly closed room.
  闷屋子住着憋气。
• I thought he gonna freeze to death but he suffocated first.
  我以为他会被冻死，可是他却先憋死了。
• The job was very dangerous and the children often choked or suffocated to death in the narrow flues.
  这种工作是十分危险的，儿童常被呛到，在管道内窒息而死。
• When you behave this way, your spouse will feel suffocated.
  当你一直疑神疑鬼时，你的另一半会感到窒息。